Premier Danielle Smith is not the usual kind of conservative. In some ways, she’s not a conservative at all.

Traditional conservatives pride themselves on taking the best from the past and making it better. Smith is more likely to raze a traditional structure to the ground and start over.

There’s more than a hint of Trumpism in this, thankfully without the ugliness and poisonous rhetoric.

Millions of Americans mistrust their federal government and want it radically rebuilt or demolished altogether. President-elect Donald Trump obliges them with every new appointment of a system-wrecker.

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