Let me state from the very outset that I disagree with most Donald Trump and Pauline Hanson policies. I am, after all, a coiffed, inner city snowflake with the progressive values to match.
But I cannot stand the smug arrogance of the Left right now. From Domainfax:
As we’ve watched President Trump boldly delivering on those promises that haven’t been stopped by a court, the blue-blooded patriots of our own homeland have been asking themselves one question: who will make Australia great again?
Today our insufficiently engreatened nation got its answer – Senator Cory Bernardi, who reportedly plans to tackle the raft of problems confronting Australia by leaving its government for a splinter party.
While he’ll shortly be another addition to the packed crossbench, Bernardi has one asset that no other senator can boast – the majority. Specifically, the Australian Majority, a group registered by his Conservative Leadership Foundation and widely assumed to be the name of the party he will register.
This name is a masterstroke. If Donald Trump can become President with 3 million fewer votes than his opponent and claim instead that he would have won a majority but for millions of cheating illegal immigrants, why should Bernardi need a majority of voters when he can simply declare one? Getting an actual, numerical majority of voters is so pre-post-truth.
And more:
Some people may find it vaguely reassuring that, while the Western world – well, the whole world really – experiences an existential crisis as it watches the festival of bizarre in the White House, Australian politics can still trundle on, paralysed by a level of puerility that would be almost as hard to make up as Donald Trump.
So Cory Bernardi is about to leave the Liberal Party. Yes, he really is apparently going to do it this time.
Well off you go, Cory. Turn off the lights as you go will you? And perhaps apologise to the preselectors and voters who guaranteed you a six-year Senate spot just eight months ago.
Perhaps you could take with you all the senior colleagues and washed-up figures in your party who are all furiously trying to position themselves to shape and control the conservative wing of your party.
Nobody is going to accuse me of supporting Cory Bernardi, whom I have mocked mercilessly as the lead figure in the Coalition Loon Pond for years. But today I say good for him. At least he’s having a go. And why wouldn’t he abandon a Coalition with no policies, no care for the national interest, no values other that supporting real estate prices whatever the cost, no spine, a hollow leader, no money, and a broken parallel PM?
The laugh is not on Cory, it’s on the Coalition, and on the global Left (which is collapsing) both of which have completely misread the times and have no idea what to do about it. Where’s the Left’s self-examination? It was it that created this mess in the first place by abandoning the working classes so thoroughly that their anger is now pouring into radical parties.
I knew Paddy McGuiness a little before he died and used to wonder what made him so scathing of Australia’s Left (noting that I disagreed with him on just about everything as well). Now I know.
