Thank you for an excellent, and well-written article Ms. Southey. 
Why did it take this long for some Conservatives to denounce The Rebel? 

Could it be because these people are closet racists and Islamophobes themselves, but that when they saw the extent of the public outrage over the murder perpetrated by a neo-Nazi in Charlottesville, they decided that associating with these white supremacists was no longer politically astute? 

The fact that people like Andrew Scheer would have anything to do with The Rebel in the first place tells us all we need to know about his values and his character.