I thought Conservative Party rules was you don’t get to be leader after losing for PM… or is the rule that you can’t run again?

I’m not sure how closely you’ve been paying attention. Pierre has been making a point of publicly connecting with far right conspiracy protestors (ie Freedom Convoy, etc), and amplifying the “fuck Trudeau” meme, which is a carbon copy of the “fuck Joe Biden” movement ie it distracts from real issues while fanning the flames of the ‘us vs them’ rhetoric and ‘take our country back’ style of proto-violent hate.

And by the way, Harper was also happy to throw red meat to these groups, just in a more subtle and dog-whistley way.