Carney is Not a Strong Leader, He is a Strong PM Brand

Vibes Over Substance: Branding, Boomer Vanity, and the Canadian Habit of Clapping Through Collapse

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There is nothing new about electorates being seduced by polish over substance.

History is crowded with societies that mistook fluency for wisdom and charm for competence. The Roman crowd preferred the theatrical demagogue to the dull administrator; the Republic did not fall because ideas vanished, but because spectacle replaced argument.

Cicero warned about this explicitly—and was ignored, then murdered.

A more modern example is Weimar Germany, where exhaustion, inflation, and ci…