We’ve learned that ignoring the hip pocket is a grievous mistake. Australia could benefit from a courageous reset of economic and social policy
Wouldn’t it be nice, as the Beach Boys sang, if the US midterm election results represented a return to kindness?
It would be a fitting closing of the circle, given that Hillary Clinton campaigned on a “love Trumps hate” platform in 2016. It certainly didn’t back then, and I doubt it did two weeks ago despite the Democrats being quick to claim the results as a return to civility and care.
The brutal reality is that Trump and his Republican backers were slapped with a hard backhander from Americans, resentful that his self-indulgent economic and foreign policies have hit them in the back pocket and at the gas pump.
Australians are not immune to the consequences of his reckless adventures, but our predicament is also of our own making, not totally the result of Donald Trump’s ill-thought-out war in Iran.
Forthcoming Australian elections will test the theory of niceness over hip pocket.
In the US, voters have a simple choice between red and blue. We now live in a multipartisan environment, whether Anthony Albanese and Angus Taylor like it or not.
Casting around for an alternative to Trumpism, be it due to his mean politics or economic…
