Rats deserting the sinking ship.

If Lilley disapproved of the alt right why did he push their ideas so assiduously for so long?

At the same time that Lilley bowed out, by an amazing coincidence, Ezra Levant who has been driving the alt right narrative in Canada suddenly decided that he too disapproves of the very ideas that he and the Rebel have been  promoting for years.

Perhaps  pressure on companies to withdraw their advertising from the Rebel site had something to do with that.

There is also the chance that the CPC/Rebel alliance has lost its appeal and that  the damage another appearance by Andrew Scheer would do with voters at large would outweigh the boost to the large contingent of supporters shared by the CPC /Rebel.
The Rebel may now be too toxic for any politician. 

Anyway it seems that these peddlers of xenophobic hate are suddenly seeing the light and backing away from  positions they held only days ago.