Canadians are remembering why Justin Trudeau was so unpopular

The establishment media is losing power. Yet, the narratives they push still have lingering influence.

For example, the media regularly portrays Stephen Harper as unpopular and divisive, while Trudeau is rarely framed that way.

However, there is good reason to believe that in reality, Trudeau is more unpopular and divisive than Harper.

Let’s consider, in Harper’s two worst elections, the Conservatives got about 29 percent of the vote. Those were his first, and last elections as party leader. In between the Conservatives won 36 percent, 38 percent, and 40 percent of the vote, with Harper getting more popular (by small degrees) with more time in power.

By contrast, Trudeau started with a win, getting 40 percent, and then rapidly lost support after just four years, with the Liberals losing eight points, falling to 32 percent, losing the popular vote, and being stripped of their majority.

It took nearly 10 years for the Liberals to defeat the Conservatives in the popular vote after Harper’s first win, while the Conservatives won the popular vote after just four years of Canadians seeing Trudeau in office.

With this in mind, let’s consider Justin Trudeau’s approval ratings.

Trudeau started off popular, as most Prime Minister’s do after winning, when even people who didn’t vote for their party give them the benefit of the doubt.

Yet, since starting high, Trudeau steadily lost support, until he became a very unpopular politician.

For about the last two years of his time in office, Trudeau was opposed by the majority of Canadians, which then deepened to two-thirds opposition in his final year as the election approached. The Liberals barely held on to power—and as it must be pointed out again—the Conservatives won more votes.

This came after years in which Trudeau had the establishment media covering for him, and at a time when the global economy was doing decent, and the US economy was roaring.

Simply put, Trudeau’s ethical problems, arrogance, refusal to listen to differing viewpoints, and demonizing of Canadians who oppose him all contributed to his status as an unpopular political figure.

Much of this has seemingly been forgotten, or at least the media wants people to forget, amid the CCP virus crisis. As we often see in a crisis, Canadians rally around their leaders, with both Trudeau and provincial premiers seeing a surge in support.

But now, people are remembering why Trudeau was so unpopular.

Amid the WE Scandal, the latest Angus Reid poll finds previous patterns reasserting themselves. Trudeau’s approval rating has fallen to 44 percent, a large collapse considering it was at 55 percent two months ago.

The number of people who disapprove of Trudeau has risen to 54 percent, up from 44 two months ago.

So, we have now returned to where things long stood: The majority of Canadians disapprove of Justin Trudeau.

It’s really quite a feat for Trudeau to accomplish this, since he has been spending immense amounts of money on popular relief programs, has had months of media attention all to himself, has mostly shut down Parliament, and has the establishment press on his side.

And yet, Canadians are still seeing through it all. We see Trudeau’s ethical failures. We see his arrogance and elitism. We see that he still believes the rules apply to us, but not to him.

And the more we see, the more his poll numbers fall once again.