Via Dennis Shanahan:
Senior ranks of the Coalition are seized with the belief voters are not going to change their mind about the Turnbull government and many now use the phrase of “looking to opposition” in regard to themselves or colleagues.
Gripped by this realisation, Malcolm Turnbull and his ministers are publicly floating ideas such as tax cuts and a banking inquiry or privately contemplating a leadership change, an early election or bringing Tony Abbott back into cabinet.
Yet in the midst of divisions and confusion over religious freedoms in same-sex marriage legislation, unsettling by-elections, cabinet rivalries and vacancies, despair after the Queensland state election, One Nation’s continuing lure to Coalition voters, destabilising leaks, the Prime Minister’s draining authority and the prospect of MPs crossing the floor to vote with Labor, there is no clear Coalition consensus or leadership.
There is an air of despair and a fatal paralysis where doing nothing is becoming the default position.
Better late than never! Welcome to Malcolm’s world. He charms, drops you cold, divides and enrages. Lack of focus is his focus as he shifts allegiances to further only one agenda: his own.
This is not politics or ideology. It is disordered behaviour.
Any two-bit organisational psych could tell you what that will do to the organisation that he heads and would recommend immediate exorcism before he rips the place to pieces.
