To be honest, Conservative politicians did pipe up when the Convoy blocked the Ambassador bridge. Not immediately, of course, and not loudly, but Doug Ford did interrupt his snowmobiling trip when his wealthy donor base called him on the carpet for allowing the yahoos to cause a millions-of-dollars-per-day incident.

It was no small amount of schadenfreude to watch Conservatives spin on the Convoy, trying to balance appeasing their voting base with appeasing their donor base. You could almost see Poillievre sweat when the Nazi flags started showing up loud-and-proud on camera, and you could see Ford trying his darndest to hide from doing anything official…