Australia and Canada Get Trumped to NZ's Advantage

Australia and Canada Get Trumped to NZ's Advantage

Well, well, well… Trump is being blamed for Canada, then Australia maintaining left-wing governments. In Canada, it emerged that the second-most important election issue was ‘Dealing with Donald Trump’.   Source: The Redbaiter / X   This was led by democracy’s most engaged voters. Those aged 60+. It wasn’t really a concern for younger voters at all.   So, did Trump make a strategic and shocking mistake in jesting that Canada should become the 51…

First Canada... and now Australia: How the global context is revitalizing the “liberal and/or progressive” parties In a matter of months, two consolidated democracies in the Western world have experienced electoral processes that, though separated by thousands of miles, share a common narrative. In Canada and Australia, everything pointed to a political renewal driven by the wear and tear of the socio-liberal governments and the growing force of…