The US election is concluding, and ours is just getting started. What lessons will our MPs take? Will our “grand gift” of compulsory voting prevent a lurch to the far right?
Aside from preparing for tough fights over defence deals, climate and trade wars, Australian MPs may well consider taking elements of the political juggernaut campaign that was Trump.
Will Opposition Leader Peter Dutton, for example, be tempted to replicate Trump’s “war on woke” as an election strategy?I don’t know if it’s even possible to answer this question, but let’s try anyway. Is Trump in the White House likely to help Labor win the next election again? Or Dutton and the Coalition?That’s a really, tremendously difficult question to answer.
But you can’t look at the Trump presidency, or Trump himself, as being a Republican. He has got the Grand Old Party to surrender itself to him. So, it is a party that is utterly contained within his grasp. And therefore every major decision will be made by Trump.So there is no go-to playbook for Dutton, but he might want to play with some of those anti-woke themes that we hear and have heard from Dutton over the past couple of years.
I think that will be the temptation for Dutton. But at the same time, you know, the grand gift that we have as our Commonwealth is compulsory voting. That really does drag everything back into the centre, and it drags everything into the lounge room and everyone’s dinner table.what you think about that – taking elements of the incredible success of Trump as a political juggernaut, taking elements of that and importing them into Australia.
And in a sense, the Coalition can be heartened by the Trump outcome because it showed that those big issues were working against the Democrats, and they were working for Donald Trump. That’s what Peter Dutton wants to repeat here.
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