The Globe:  "It feels too much like a distillation of the party went down to defeat in 2015, and deserved it. It feels too little like the party that years earlier took power, and deserved to."

Well, the Globe is half-way there.  Has the Globe finally repented of the ludicrous endorsement of 2015?  As for the other half, they never deserved to hold power.  The Globe has a way to go yet o the road to Damascus.

The Globe:  "But before the downfall, the Conservative Party of Stephen Harper had won power with a different and more optimistic philosophy."

Oh, please, what tripe.

The Conservatives gained power by ruthless exploitation of every known weakness of First-Past-the-Post.  They made an art form of vote suppression.  They tried to bribe Canadians with their own tax money by irresponsibly cutting the GST - leading to a $150 billion loss of infrastructure money.

Optimistic, my foot.