Was 2006 or 2016 more conservative?

[Don Vito Corleone]

The election : 2016 easily

The year: 2006 pretty easily


The whole 2000s are probably the most Conservative Decade we have had since the 1920s

The 1980s too were so conservative with the Reagan Revolution, Theresa May in the United Kingdom and Brian Mulroney in Canada, notably.

Speaking as a Canadian, it's really quite misleading to lump in Mulroney with Reagan and Thatcher. I see this done a lot, I'm guessing because he was a Conservative who held office in the 1980s, but the issue is Mulroney was much much more moderate than either of them. To give 2 examples, Mulroney is often called "Canada's Greenest Prime Minister" (in fact, current Green Party leader Elizabeth May served as an advisor to Mulroney), and he did little to break the backs of labour.

[Don Vito Corleone]

The election : 2016 easily

The year: 2006 pretty easily


The whole 2000s are probably the most Conservative Decade we have had since the 1920s

The 1980s too were so conservative with the Reagan Revolution, Theresa May in the United Kingdom and Brian Mulroney in Canada, notably.

Speaking as a Canadian, it's really quite misleading to lump in Mulroney with Reagan and Thatcher. I see this done a lot, I'm guessing because he was a Conservative who held office in the 1980s, but the issue is was much much more moderate than either of them. To give 2 examples, Mulroney is often called "Canada's Greenest Prime Minister" (in fact, current Green Party leader Elizabeth May served as an advisor to Mulroney), and he did little to break the backs of labour.

But isn’t May more to the centre then most greens politicians world wide And a monarchist too?

She's closer to the centre than say, the Australian Greens or the American Greens, but she's still a greenie, and Mulroney adopting her as a senior advisor speaks to the sort of thing I'm talking about.