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I was writing something for an RP involving a slightly altered Canada where more overtly socialist policies became popular in the 1980s, resulting in an overtly socialist state in the present, and I've been looking into ways where that could take root:

In the 1960s, a faction of the NDP arose known as the Waffle which held a mixture of radical Democratic Socialism and Canadian Nationalism as its ideology. Despite its relatively radical beliefs, in the 1971 leadership elections, it scored second place with nearly 40% of the vote. However, the victor of the election, David Lewis had most of the Waffle expelled, afterwards they attempted to form their own party but lost bitterly in the 1974 federal elections, collapsing a year later. Fast forward to the next elections in 1975, it's as if the Waffle never existed and only until the early 2000s would you see renewed large scale internal support for a more radically left wing NDP.

How would you reverse the effects of the Waffle's demise, if not undo it entirely? Could the ex-Waffle somehow regroup after the NDP's massive electoral defeat in 1974. Or was the NDP after the Waffle's destruction just kinda doomed to stay away from radical left wing policies?
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