Akerman: Trump victory warning to Albanese and woke Australia
Donald Trump’s smashing victory is not only a resounding wake-up call to the woke, it is a strident warning to the Albanese government and its Greens and Teal supporters, writes Piers Akerman.
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Donald Trump’s smashing victory is not only a resounding wake-up call to the woke, it is a strident warning to the Albanese government and its Greens and Teal supporters.
The US Democrats under President Joe Biden and its defeated presidential candidate Vice President Kamala Harris embraced all of the extremist ideological policies that Labor has pushed here and they were thrashed.
Thrashed, as they say in the US South, like a rented mule.
It’s not as if the US electorate didn’t know Trump, they did.
He asked voters a simple question: are you better off now than you were four years ago (when he was president)?
In the US, as in Australia, anyone doing the household shopping or looking for a home, or seeking clear national leadership free of identity politics, knows that things have slid sharply backward under the Leftist government.
Harris ran her campaign handicapped by her dismal record as Biden’s handmaiden.
She used fear as her principal tool.
The same theme was relentlessly pushed by the taxpayer-funded ABC here where Kim Williams has failed to rein in his Left-wing activist employees.
Tuning in to the ABC after Trump’s triumph, we have heard tearful commentary seeking counselling amid claims that we are about to enter an apocalyptic era of global catastrophes.
In the real world beyond Ultimo and the Canberra bubble, things are looking up. China’s dictatorial leader Xi Jinping is musing a reset in international relations, Russia’s thuggish president Vladimir Putin is pondering the wisdom of his stalled invasion of Ukraine, and the Hezbollah and Hamas terrorists know that their wished-for martyrdom may come sooner than they expected.
Our ABC’s feminist commentariat wholeheartedly promulgated misinformation throughout the campaign, giving airtime to the most ridiculous propaganda spewing from the vile Democrat operatives.
Trump is not a Nazi, the rally at Madison Square Garden was not reminiscent of any previous gathering there, Trump didn’t call for the assassination of his political rivals.
He may be a blowhard but he did not deserve the epithets thrown at him by Anthony Albanese, Kevin Rudd, Penny Wong, Wayne Swan, Bill Shorten, Mark Dreyfus or Tanya Plibersek.
Trump’s embrace of technology, and Elon Musk in particular, put Chris Bowen’s insane embrace of environmentally destructive unreliable wind and solar projects to shame. Bowen ignores the science of nuclear technology and has left Australia’s economy weakened as energy-eating AI projects leave our shores. The prolonged Broken Hill blackout is a testament to the abject failure of his absurd policies.
The commentary from many female writers has been hysterical.
There was nothing misogynistic about the Trump campaign, as the numbers of female voters who had previously voted Democrat changed their minds when asked to vote for Harris, a mediocrity selected for ticking the diversity, equity and inclusion boxes.
Competent women have been elected leaders, as Margaret Thatcher, Aung San Suu Kyi, Golda Meir and Indira Gandhi have shown, but they don’t meet the approval of our ABC and their exemplary records are never cited.
A friend in the US said he voted against Harris because he wanted to protect women from transsexuals using their dressing rooms, he is opposed to paying reparations to people he has never harmed, and he dislikes illegal immigration, the power of the teachers’ union, and sanctuary cities. To which he added the sight of university campuses overrun by students supporting terrorist groups and the nauseating embrace of identity politics. He voted for jobs, a better economy and safety for women.
The clear lesson of the US election is conservatives are in ascendancy.
With our current leaders scrambling to recover from their historical disrespectful remarks about the new leader of the Free World, Opposition Leader Peter Dutton is in the pole position at the next poll.
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