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It’s kind of pathetic to watch the agony of the left as it fights its own failure still wearing a self-imposed straight jacket.
Leftie media writhed through every excuse under the Sun:
- it was Murdoch’s fault says Rudd, wrote Bianca Hall
- working classes love their tax lurks, wrote David Crowe
- inner city globalisation winners lost working class globalisation losers, wrote Matt Wade
- it was coal and God that cost Labor, says Michael Koziol
- it was coal and Clive, screamed Mike Seccombe
- they weren’t left enough, bellowed Guy Rundle
- progressives are boosting fascists, howled Bernard Keane
- blame God, genuflected Jennine Khalik
- will nobody think of the women, cried Amy Remeikis
- It was all about hate, opined Peter Hartcher
- It was all about love, crooned Annabelle Crabb
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David Llewellyn-Smith is Chief Strategist at the MB Fund and MB Super. David is the founding publisher and editor of MacroBusiness and was the founding publisher and global economy editor of The Diplomat, the Asia Pacific's leading geo-politics and economics portal.
He is also a former gold trader and economic commentator at The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, the ABC and Business Spectator. He is the co-author of The Great Crash of 2008 with Ross Garnaut and was the editor of the second Garnaut Climate Change Review.