The Nationalist Spring is alive and growing as Australia’s conservative prime minister Scott Morrison’s unexpected win on Saturday appears to show.
“Tonight is about every single Australian who depends on their government to put them first,” Mr. Morrison said. “And that is exactly what we are going to do.”
Whether a sign of the times or serendipity, Mr. Morrison is an evangelical Christian who admires President Trump.
Mr. Trump is that unique U.S. president who unapologetically uses the government he leads to putting the interests of Americans and America first.
American evangelicals and more secular conservatives alike extol Mr. Trump as if he were one of them.
When it comes to abortion, religious freedom, taxes, economic incentives and deregulation, The Donald has shown he is one of them.
There is at work in this upset election of an Australian Trumpster an ongoing force we’ve seen gain strength even as it has ebbed and flowed at home and abroad over recent decades.
That force that propelled Mr. Morrison to victory was and is the “Australia first” mentality of voters widely tagged as “populists.”
It is a label voters of a similar ilk have also worn in the U.S., Britain, Italy, Hungary, Brazil and beyond.
Everywhere that the popular press, liberals and other leftists apply the populist label, they mean it to convey a racist, nativist, xenophobic, sexist, totalitarian and, yes, Nazi-like view of the world on the part of anyone, so long as the anyone bears sentiments to the right of those of Maine Sen. Susan Collins and Alaska Sen. Lisa Murkowski.
That’s approximately 63 million Americans right there, by the 2016 presidential vote count.
Mr. Morrison’s win despite polls forecasting a loss suggests what he calls the “quiet Australians” — think “silent majority” of American voters in the Nixon/Reagan era of the last century — chose to stick with a conservative policy of tight immigration restrictions and continued job growth.
The Australian vote appeared to reject the liberal alternative that the Labor party offered.
It beat the tambourines for measures to slow climate change and to rectify income “inequality.”
Ok, time to let the pulse slow down a bit and pause for a moment of cautious reflection.
Reading too much into an election outcome is a hazard all analysts and partisans alike face. And, no, this election Down Under doesn’t necessarily signal a likely win for President Trump and his “America first!” brand next year.
But then maybe, in ways we don’t quite understand at this moment, it does portend good things to come to our location on the globe 17 months from now.
Australia, by the way, boasts 27 years of sustained growth of its economy. The longest expansion in the world.
America boasts something similar.
Of the G-7 nations, only The United States is enjoying sustained economic growth.
Stagnation marks the economies of the other six most advanced industrial nations. They have, according to liberal interpreters like the Los Angeles Times, largely democratic socialist economies.
Read into that what you will.
What you will won’t surprise me, I’m betting.
Read more at Washington Times
Looks like their catching on to the ruse from the Globalists
The globalists offer nothing to working people , in fact they will work hard to tax the middle class into oblivion, reduce freedom of speach , and push a socialist / communist agenda . Australia has rejected their nonsense and they won’t be the last .
Canada’s Prime Minister photo op , the communist fan , is going to see the same thing happen this November . France and many other European countries are done with grossly inflated energy costs and the false narrative that humans are some how going to pull a Goldilocks perfect climate temperature off by playing with a trace gas . Complete scam and most people
are done with it .
Good on Australia and Mr. Morrison .
The globalists offer nothing to working people , in fact they will work hard to tax the middle class into oblivion, reduce freedom of speach , and push a socialist / communist agenda . Australia has rejected their nonsense and they won’t be the last .
Canada’s Prime Minister photo op , the communist fan , is going to see the same thing happen this November . France and many other European countries are done with grossly inflated energy costs and the false narrative that humans are some how going to pull a Goldilocks perfect climate temperature off by playing with a trace gas . Complete scam and most people
are done with it .
Good on Australia and Mr. Morrison . They deserve better .
The globalists offer nothing to working people , in fact they will work hard to tax the middle class into oblivion, reduce freedom of speach , and push a socialist / communist agenda . Australia has rejected their nonsense and they won’t be the last .
Canada’s Prime Minister photo op , the communist fan , is going to see the same thing happen this November . France and many other European countries are done with grossly inflated energy costs and the false narrative that humans are some how going to pull a Goldilocks perfect climate temperature off by playing with a trace gas . Complete scam and most people
are done with it .
Good on Australia and Mr. Morrison . They deserve better .
The globalists offer nothing to working people , in fact they will work hard to tax the middle class into oblivion, reduce freedom of speach , and push a socialist / communist agenda . Australia has rejected their nonsense and they won’t be the last .
Canada’s Prime Minister photo op , the communist fan , is going to see the same thing happen this November . France and many other European countries are done with grossly inflated energy costs and the false narrative that humans are some how going to pull a Goldilocks perfect climate temperature off by playing with a trace gas . Complete scam and most people
are done with it .
Good on Australia and Mr. Morrison . They deserve better .
Obviously an election has more than one issue. I’ll comment on the climate change dimension of Morrison’s win.
The climate change activists and the politicians that they control want to spend huge amounts of money on the climate change effort. The carbon emission taxes, fuel taxes, and impact to electric rates are some but by no means all of the costs they want to impose. Beyond cost, they want to implement “rapid, far-reaching and unprecedented changes in all aspects of society.” On the other hand according to the polls the average family is willing to spend very little on climate change. Even in Germany where they are very concerned about the subject they oppose a carbon emissions tax. The news media censors out the cost of what the activists want to do. But once the pubic is aware of the cost, you get the results we have just had in Australia.