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SteynonLine ^ | April 25, 2025 | Mark Steyn

[Twotone]

~In a shrewd assessment of the current campaign Down Under, Paul Collits cites a certain "niche Canadian"":

Mark Steyn says that we cannot vote our way out of the Western mess. The 2025 Australian election is living proof of the truth of his claim. Whoever wins here will inherit an unholy mess, and will not have the will to address it.

Of course, he could be talking about next week's Canadian election or last month's German election. As we have noted, Fred Merz, the incoming chancellor in Berlin, has yet to take office but what Americans call the honeymoon is over before the coalition has been officially pronounced man and wife. Hermann Binkert, head honcho of Germany's INSA polling agency, says the country has never seen loss of approval on this scale between the election and the formation of the government. The so-called "far-right" AfD is now leading in multiple polls. Which would be super-exciting if voting hadn't already taken place.

In America, the new administration certainly has the "will to address" the "unholy mess" but the Trumpian Gulliver is beset on all sides by District Court Lilliputians whose position is that what a Democrat president has done cannot "lawfully" be undone. This is a pseudo-"constitutional" recognition of the practical reality of electoral politics throughout the west: the choice is between a Leftward Ho! party and a Ratchet party. If the Left wins, they dissolve the border and trannify your kids. If the "Right" wins (Stephen Harper, Scott Morrison), they may pause some of the more obviously crazy stuff but they never actually reverse the direction of travel. Unless they're the UK Tories (Cameron, May, Johnson, Sunak), in which case they stay in the leftie lane without even shifting down to third gear.

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TOPICS: Australia/New Zealand; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: australia; marksteyn

[Lurker]

Steyn is a genius.

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