Speaking of David Coon, I think the federal Greens should copy his strategy and attempt to displace the NDP as the main "left of Liberal" party. I'm skeptical that there's much appetite for a hard left party (as opposed to the huge number of promiscuous progressives out there), and such an approach would have a much smaller risk of alienating the existing "Patagonia" support base compared to the ecosocialist route.
You mean the David Coon strategy of getting the NDP to spectacularly implode at the exact right time?
The trouble is that the federal NDP's always managed to evade the "hard left" pigeonhole--even in the Audrey/Alexa years, it never managed to quite become the more-or-less permanent shadow of its former self than, say, the French Communists became. And a big reason for that is that unlike the NB NDP, it's never *really* been sufficiently wiped off the map seatwise for such permanent-condition marginality to take root; and those who've remained have constituted, in practice, a relatively diverse and inherently "expandable" coalition.
Essentially, what you'd *really* be wishing for is for the Annamie Paul Greens to be the new Preston Manning Reform Party.
