It’s interesting to look back at twists of fate. In 2014 the New Brunswick NDP took 14% of the vote (like the Greens last night) but the then leader Dominic Cardy narrowly lost his seat while the Greens managed to elect their leader narrowly despite a much smaller provincial vote share. Imagine if the roles had been reversed and Cardy had won his seat in 2014 and Coons did not? IMHO if that had happened the NDP would be the strong third party in NB with a handful of seats and the Greens would be almost non-existent
Would Cardy being, well, Cardy not still have left an opening for the Greens and others? Cargo-cult Blairism doesn't strike me as the most stable foundation to effectively build an NDP branch from scratch on.
Running on the programme and rhetoric of the average DSA chapter in an election in New Brunswick was certainly a... brave... choice.
There might be some lessons to learn for such people, if they knew anything about New Brunswick.
