“This sort of deeply ideological anti-communist politics only really works on people who are in their 70s or older,” Jung said.

And yes, we also exploited other countries, chased phantom ideological goals and otherwise betrayed our ideals but this was central to how we organized our tremendous military and economic power in the world.

Posing as an ideological compatriot, Williams had penetrated the top ranks of two of the most prominent right-wing militias in the country.

Yet still, up until the very end, Trudeau seemed determined to hang on, citing his desire to face Poilievre - his ideological opposite - in the polls.

Much of it, he believes, is rooted in an external and almost "ideological hostility" to the city's ethnic diversity.