Let me be crystal clear: the decision to distance the Liberal Party from Donald Trump was an unmitigated disaster. Anyone who tells you otherwise is either a fool or suffering acute Trump Derangement Syndrome.
When Peter Dutton was Trump-like, strong, powerful and fighting the Woke orthodoxy, he won the unwinnable referendum, the Voice, turning an 80-20 ‘Yes’ vote into a 60-40 ‘No’ vote.
An astonishing achievement that defied all the pollsters and pundits. And he did it by being fiercely anti-Woke and single-minded.
Then, when Peter Dutton went anti-Trump, didn’t attack Woke, went Labor-lite, he lost not only the election but also his seat.
The TDS crowd can try and spin that however they like, but the facts are simple. The populist anti-Woke (ie Trumpian) strategy was an astonishing success. The anti-Trump, pro-Woke, all-things-to-all-people strategy was, as we learned last night, a worse-than-imaginable disaster.
Peter Dutton’s greatest legacy is not in fact winning the Voice referendum, magnificent though that was, but his unequivocal, unwavering and full-throated support for Israel after the horrors of October 7 at a nightmare time for Australian Jews. For that, he must be eternally honoured and the Liberal Party must retain that unequivocal support no matter what lies ahead.
Let me also make this part: the Labor Party did not tear down Peter Dutton. The Woke, leftist bedwetters of the Liberal Party backrooms and focus groups tore down Peter Dutton. And destroyed the Liberal Party in the process.
Many – including the ABC – have already tried to blame Senator Jacinta Nampijinpa Price (and Andrew Hastie) for the Coalition loss for supposed clangers made during the campaign.
All hell broke loose when Jacinta – and this goes back to the Trump nonsense – said we should be ‘making Australia great again’. She was immediately forced to walk back from those comments, which was simply idiotic. Who doesn’t want to make Australia great again? And if not why not?
Worse, some in the Coalition are blaming the decision to appoint Jacinta to a DOGE-style position was a mistake. It was only a mistake because they didn’t do anything with it. Jacinta should have been out there every single day with a list of the hundreds of ridiculous projects where hundreds of thousands and even millions of taxpayer dollars are being spent on Indigenous bodies and Canberra diversity and inclusion Woke bureaucrats.
As for Andrew Hastie’s comments, dredged up from a decade ago, about not allowing women into front-line combat … rather than running like scared rabbits and playing Hide the Hastie, the Coalition should simply have said, ‘Andrew is a former SAS officer. If anyone wishes to question him on his views should perhaps go and spend a few years in Afghanistan before they do.’ End of discussion.
Voters are instinctively wary of leaders who look unsure of themselves, and rightly so. Peter Dutton the Conviction Politician would now be headed for the Lodge. Peter Dutton chose to abandon those core beliefs and follow the siren call of the pollsters and focus groups and bedwetting backroom boys. You reap what you sow.
Is the Liberal Party still fit for purpose? Is it time for a National Conservative party combining the Nationals, One Nation, the other Libertarian/Family First/Trumpets or whatever they’re called and those members of the Liberal Party who wish to, yes, make Australia great again?
The bedwetting Liberals have been an unmitigated disaster – they destroyed Tony Abbott, gave us Malcolm Turnbull and Scott Morrison, and wasted nine years in government and then destroyed Peter Dutton, the hero of the Voice. Let them form their own party – they can call it the Bedwetters.
Do we need a new National Conservative party? A party prepared to fight climate change dogma, Net Zero, Indigenous separatism, Woke identity politics, and stand for traditional, Judeo-Christian Enlightenment pro-Western and pro-American values. Conservatives need to decide.
