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Robin Skies: Conservative purity testing is a race to the bottom

The Conservative movement gains nothing by constantly purity testing everyone it perceives as an enemy

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In Canada, the conservative movement is mired in a crippling problem: the destructive, on-again, off-again habit of purity testing, whether ideological or otherwise.

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The phenomenon is hardly new in politics. There have always been people who see politics as a vehicle for asserting tribal status rather than pursuing civic service. That impulse is now beginning to animate parts of the Conservative Party’s base to a damaging degree.

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“Secret Liberal” is a term thrown around more often than I care to count, used as an insult against those who are not part of this or that club within the party and the broader movement. Whatever the club, its members insist that they are the only true, ideologically pure Conservatives and the only arbiters of the change needed to get Canada back on track toward a better future.

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