The Coalition should resist seeing Trump as a natural disaster over which they had no control. Peter Dutton made many other missteps that doomed his party’s chances.
i would say 50% trump, 50% terrible policies and leader
the huge turn around in the polls came when trump started tariffs and demanding ukraine pay for protection, essentially ending the since ww2 idea that we can rely on America for protection
dutton did himself no favours coming across as the worst person in australia and some of the worst policies, not only not matching a tax cut but denying it might be the most unliberal party thing ever, i was legit 🤯
I hope the Trump-aligning narrative will prevent the right centre from moving to the right for 10 years
The Coalition should resist seeing Trump as a natural disaster over which they had no control.
Well, yeah. Trump was a disaster for the Coalition because they had positioned themselves too close to him. In the long run, with a Trumpian-like racist, transphobic, and sexist attitude of Dutton himself and of the LNP more broadly. And in the short run with an election campaign that sought to emulate Trump and DOGE with attacks on the public service and renewables. All things that the public associates with Trump and which, even if some of them may have been ok with in a vacuum, seeing it in the context of major instability caused by Trumpian politics, turned them away from the LNP.
