I'm talking about the ascension of disenfranchised, right-wing conservatives who want nationalism, protectionism, and a closure of borders?
Trump is a seperate case, a seperate animal might be a more apt term, and I can already see the levels of conservatism in politics not only in Australia but globally (Brazil, America, France, Britain etc).
What are the chances of us voting in a leader as divisive as Donald Trump in Australia? Is it something only answerable by time and circumstance. Trump seems a distinctly American populist President: narcissistic, hell-bent on fame/attention (look at his early career, his stint on The Apprentice), his disgusting attitudes to women that are shared by plenty of men here (as purely lust objects ripe for debasing and demeaning).
Australia has an awkward track-record with its self-conscious following of fads imported from America - not just politically, but in popular culture. Perhaps it's time to get smart about what is wrong with other regions, form our own path, so we can avoid the same heavily divided fate here...
What does everybody else make of this? Perhaps a more deeper question would be "what prompted the return of conservatism?"
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