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Everything seemed to be right. The riding had been Liberal for more than half a century. The party's candidate was Sorel's young (34), personable Gerard Cournoyer, law partner and political heir apparent of the late P. J. A. Cardin, who had not been beaten in 35 years. Furthermore, the opposition looked feeble. The Union des Electeurs had put up Roland Corbeil, a Social Crediter. The Progressive Conservative was Etienne Duhamel, who was a candidate only because of the new Progressive Conservative policy of entering a runner, no matter how lame, in every race...
Cournoyer started out well, campaigning like the old Cardin hand he was. Behind his well-heeled machine stood Sorel's potent Simard Brothers, Quebec's biggest industrialists, whose shipyard and two plants dominate the riding. Then, a week before the election, the Liberals got a shock: a spot survey showed a strong trend toward Social Crediter Corbeil...
Most of the troops had deserted by going on pre-embarkation leaves and not coming back. In Quebec, about 700 men of Le Régiment de Châteauguay, stationed at Sorel, vanished. Another 600 were missing from Les Fusiliers de Sherbrooke at Joliette...
...picked up the cult of superman from Nietzsche, the creed of power from Machiavelli. Pareto taught him to despise democracy, Marx to scorn capitalism, and Sorel the myth of universal violence. He courted martyrdom, spat at priests, lived promiscuously with at least half a dozen women. Out of Marxism, jingoism and obscurantism he compounded a new thing called Fascism and imposed it on a nation weakened by war and frightened by social unrest...
...Georges Sorel (1847-1922) developed the idea of the social myth-the idea that most peoples have fabulous notions of their potential greatness and importance. Such beliefs, Sorel insisted, must be reckoned with by the politician, who should not imagine that the Rabbits follow reasonable paths...