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Poilievre’s comments on folklore aren’t quaint—they’re dangerous

A late-seventeenth century woodcut from “Robin Hood's Progress to Nottingham,” black text against a brown background, and a depiction of people hunting deer in a forest with bow and arrow.

Poilievre’s allegory to Robin Hood was not, after all, a quaint diversion from matters of real political substance. His speech sets a dangerous precedent for shifting public discourse toward the mystical, exclusionary community of “the folk,” and that it is a threat against which we should all be vigilant.