The NDP’s timing problem
Ironically, Jagmeet Singh’s trendiness and hipness probably would have worked better had he been made NDP leader in the happier days of 2012 and Mulcair’s earnest, businesslike demeanour would probably make him more popular today. It just goes to show that, like in Machiavelli’s age, timing in politics matters.
OAKVILLE, ONT.—Niccolo Machiavelli, a 16th-century Italian diplomat, once wrote, “A man who is used to acting in one way never changes; he must come to ruin when the times, in changing, no longer are in harmony with his ways.”
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