Working Yourself into a Shoot – Wrestling, Identity, and the Performance of Populism in the Republican Party and the Conservative Party of Canada

• In Event: Lightning Talk: Populism

Brief Overview

This paper will compare Trump’s populist persona with that of Pierre Poilievre, the leader of the Conservative Party of Canada, and interrogate the ways in which Poilievre’s populism is a mere appropriation of someone else’s "gimmick".

Authors

• Asif Hameed, Carleton University

• Alexandra Wishart, Carleton University