Xenophobia and white nationalism fail to derail Alberta UCP campaign

An Alberta NDP focus-group and poll-driven strategy leads to defeat

April 20 2019

The Alberta Advantage

Predictably, the Alberta NDP’s focus-grouped and poll-driven strategy to get re-elected failed, despite Jason Kenney’s campaign having multiple run-ins with xenophobia and white nationalism.

On episode 35 of the Alberta Advantage podcast, Team Advantage asks who among us could have looked at the 2016 Clinton-Trump contest and predicted that people would vote for economic nostalgia despite the massively reactionary and regressive politics of Premier-designate Jason Kenney?

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