The crazy variants of conservative support were always there--it's just that Harper knew he had to gag them to get a majority. So he did. But they've been itching for release.

Their angel of deliverance, Trump, has risen. They want the same revolution here now: the necons with no sense of citizenry and world; the Christian right who are anti-gay, anti-choice, anti-other faiths; the general old stock folk who think that being told they can't be anti-brown or anti-gay or mindlessly anti-immigrant is "oppressive political correctness"; and the generally uneducated who fall for every false Facebook post they see that get 'em good and angry.

But this is Canada, not the U.S. Their rise and their Trump clone candidate will spend years in the political wilderness until another Harper comes and hushes them. Actually O'Leary won;t stick around that long. He'll lose then go back to his businesses. Pull a Belinda Stronach basically.