People’s revolt is only starting in cultural wars

DONALD Trump’s stunning win in the US presidential election gives reason to hope: the public is in revolt against the cultural elite, writes Andrew Bolt.

A FRIEND at a party on Saturday passed on a message from his mum, who watches my TV show on Sky.

“Give us some hope.”

And she’s right. It has been so easy — even urgent — to point out our problems.

After all, government debt is out of control. Our government is chronically weak. Too many of us are addicted to welfare.

Add the cultural wars. A new racism, pushed by the Left, is dividing us. Then there’s jihadism and the global-warming insanity. Free speech has been muzzled and education standards are in sharp decline. The churches are cowed.

US president-elect Donald Trump speaking at a rally in Grand Rapids, Michigan.

Plenty of reason to despair, then. But should we?

Donald Trump’s stunning win in the US presidential election gives reason to hope: the public is in revolt against the cultural elite that’s led the West to this state.

Here, too, we see the media and political class now changing in a panic, desperate to maintain their power.

Yes, the signs are scattered, but observe.

Surveys confirm that most Australians are climate sceptics, despite the non-stop media nagging and fake news of catastrophes. Labor’s carbon tax was scrapped and the Turnbull Government has just been scared off giving us a new one.

What’s more, both Labor and the Liberals now realise the public rightly distrusts multiculturalism and will no longer accept mass immigration from countries whose cultures clash with our own. No politician now repeats the lie that “Islam means peace”.

I suspect neither Labor nor the Liberals will now dare ask Australians to vote at a referendum on indigenous recognition — an attempt to divide us by race. The public is on to their agenda and rejects this new racism.

Even free speech has now become a populist issue, taken up by Pauline Hanson and most Liberal backbenchers. A judge has thrown out the latest attempt to use the Racial Discrimination Act to silence a debate on the new politics of race.

And fun fact. High culture may be dead in many state schools, but the demand for it still survives: unaudited figures from the National Gallery of Victoria show it’s the world’s 21st most visited art museum.

The advance is so slow, but the fight for reason, culture and freedom did advance in this difficult year.

Thanks for your support and goodbye until next year, when we will resume this battle.