National Post: What’s happening isn’t a sign of a threat to the party’s leadership or even a product of some built-in propensity for intellectual combat among conservatives, says Ken Boessenkool, who has worked on policy and strategy for former prime minister Stephen Harper, along with a host of other conservative leaders. It’s a symptom of the violently shifting ground beneath his party’s intellectual movement and voter base.
“The shifting coalition, by definition, is going to require a shift in the ideas that we’re fighting about. So, it’s entirely unsurprising that we’re having these fights,” said Boessenkool…