DO BETTER THAN SIMPLY DENOUNCING, DECRYING AND DISAVOWING.

of Donald Trump and his European analogs, and suggested principled conservatives need to do better than simply denouncing, decrying and disavowing.

“The answer to manifestations of Trump-o-mania is not Trump-o-phobia,” he said, “but political leadership that addresses the root causes of voter alienation and redirects negative political energy into positive ends.” He likened a populist uprising to a “rogue” oil well that blows out of control; you have to carefully dig a relief well at just the right angle to lower the pressure.

Goodness knows conservatives could use some pressure-release on the question of Islamist extremism. Ten days ago, four leadership candidates — including two former cabinet ministers — attended a rally whose premise was that a private member’s motion in the House of Commons was a step toward Sharia law and an attack on free speech.

Alas, the terrorism panel released no pressure at all.

“Motion 103 … is essentially akin to the blasphemy laws,” said Raheel Raza, president of the Council for Muslims Facing Tomorrow. (M-103 isn’t a law of any sort, and never will be.) She took umbrage at the suggestion by M-103’s sponsor, Liberal MP Iqra Khalid, that “more than one million Canadians … suffer because of Islamophobia … on a daily basis.”

Raza: “Seriously? As though in Canada racism and bigotry, only against Muslims, is an everyday issue?” (Six parishioners