Speaking of Mark Carney, I rhetorically ask "What is a continuity multilateralist?"

A continuity multilateralist believes the post-WWII international system is fundamentally sound.

They believe organizations like IMF, World Bank, WTO, NATO, UN frameworks needs reform, not demolition.

Problems are best solved through rules, institutions, coordination between countries.

They desperately desire stability, predictability, and trust matter, and dislike short-term leverage

They value trade agreements, independent central banks, international norms, incremental change,

They dislike intensely tariff shocks, unilateralism, “deal-by-deal” diplomacy, and weaponization of uncertainty

Carney fits this perfectly.

As any extreme position inevitably leads to the right and left taking the same positions, the extreme left tends to believe the system is not malfunctioning, but it is functioning exactly as designed.

So anyone committed to stability like Mark Carney becomes suspect. Predictability protects capital, not labour.

And crises, such as ones Trump creates, are often the only moments where power often empowers elites, authoritarians, or reactionaries. In other words actors who can navigate or exploit chaos.

Stability-oriented figures are cast as enemies. On the left this is ironic since it's rare that a crises benefits the working poor.

When extremist on both sides hear Mark Carney they think he protecting existing hierarchies/ "the deep state."

Personally, I’m more sympathetic to Carney’s preference for lower chaos.

Only tangentially related, you might consider physicist Enrico Fermi's great filter idea.