The US presidential election had not yet been announced, but by that time the Australian Greens were already frothing at the mouth at Donald Trump’s imminent political success.
For some, democracy is only a wonderful thing when the people win.
The minor party, which will likely control the balance of power should Anthony Albanese lose his majority in the next federal election, has led the charge in attacking the soon-to-be president-elect of the United States.
Greens leader Adam Bandt was unusually the most reasonable Green MP on social media, tweeting “this is a pretty scary result for many of us”.
But once his team started targeting Trump, it didn’t take long for Bandt, as a leader, to follow.
Senator Jordon Steele-John led the charge, simply tweeting “end AUKUS” – a reference to Australia’s $368 billion nuclear submarine deal with the UK and US – as if isolating Australia of his number one ally was the best way forward, especially if he believes that re-electing Trump will only increase global instability.
Shortly afterwards, Bandt issued a press statement demanding that Labor cancel the AUKUS deal entirely.
Senator Larissa Waters posted: ‘Like many of you, I’m still shocked that a misogynistic, sexist, racist grifter who doesn’t accept climate science appears to have been chosen to lead a global power that Australia has so many ties to. .’
Greens senator Larissa Waters (pictured) said she was “shocked that a misogynistic, sexist, racist conman” appeared to be the next president.
Donald Trump (pictured with wife Melania) claimed victory, saying “this is the greatest political movement of all time.”
Unless one decides to emulate Hillary Clinton or Joe Biden and label Trump supporters as “deplorables” or “trash,” surely the most useful thing to understand is why so many traditional Americans are willing to vote for Trump regardless. their failures.
Many who voted for Trump are fed up with the political class and the way many on the left choose to lecture the mainstream with a contempt they can barely hide, as the Greens are doing again now.
At press time, Trump appears poised to even win the popular vote, not just a majority of the Electoral College, the state voting system that determines who is elected president.
The attitude that dismisses the mainstream is not limited to political decision-making in the United States. Trump is not the cause of the political problems in the United States, he is a symptom of them. Understanding what they are and trying to address them is the cure.
That includes understanding the attitude in voter territory that gets Trump elected, twice now, and therefore allows people like Trump to succeed despite his well-documented failures.
The problem with such an approach is that it would require some self-reflection on the part of the self-appointed guardians of what is right and wrong. Self-reflection is not exactly a Greens strong point.
Nor is it for the coterie of commentators who were also quick to attack the imminent democratic outcome in the world’s most famous and powerful democracy.
Greens leader Adam Bandt (pictured) took aim at Trump by declaring that Labor should cancel the AUKUS deal.
Mike Carlton, presumably at least jokingly, tweeted: “It may be possible for us to seal a defense treaty with our largest customer.” CHINAU.’
I’m not sure that lending the military’s hand to a genocidal dictatorship is necessarily the lesser of two evils compared to tolerating another four years of a democratically elected Trump as president of the United States.
The tweet from legal blog Justinian, which delineates between Democratic and Republican states – with the South labeled “stupid” while the Democratic west and east coasts along with the Great Lakes and Great Lakes regions are described as “United States “- neatly sums up the elites’ contempt for the mainstream.
Personally, I would prefer that Trump not return as president, especially because of the way he behaved when he lost four years ago.
But at least he knows how to annoy the right people.
That said, the outrage brigade is always easily angered.
Maybe they should be grateful for Trump’s return. It’ll give them a lot more to complain about, that’s for sure.