The Right Is On The Nose
Most people know that far right politics are nasty, when you get down to it. Populist moaning and blaming others when given power turns into fascism and authoritarianism. We are seeing it in America, where the Trump regime is flouting the law and stripping people of their basic human rights. The Right is on the nose, at the moment, as folk realise the damage being done to the economy and international goodwill. Losing trust in your public institutions, when corrupt billionaires go after your Social Security, Education and Food Safety, to name just a few, spells the end of government for all the people.
Right Wing Politics Proving To Be Unsound & Dangerous In Government
Australia and Canada are both having federal elections. The Trump factor has, it seems, swung voters away from populist right wing political parties. Canada because it has borne the brunt of Donald Trump’s economic attacks via tariffs and geopolitical threats upon their sovereignty. Australians just don’t like extremists and feel betrayed after decades of carrying water for its perceived big brother in various conflicts. The shared feeling is, ‘how dare Donald Trump shit all over our loyalty like some mob boss demanding fealty beyond what has already been constantly shown in spades.
Those On The Right No Longer Stout Defenders Of Free Speech
Australians have stopped travelling to the US, if it is not securely work related, as the stories of people being held at borders have sent worrying messages to those not aligned with the Trump regime policies. Indeed, overseas visitors per se have dramatically dropped off to the USA.
“Are Australians avoiding the US?
Yes, according to the US International Trade Administration. Their latest data shows Australian visitor numbers plummeted 7 per cent in March this year, compared to March 2024. That’s the sharpest drop in Australian visitors the US has seen.”
- (https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-04-15/australians-appear-to-be-avoiding-travel-to-the-us/105124236)
Donald Trump has assembled a cabinet full of extremists and cranks; therefore, nobody knows what curtailment of free speech and rights will occur next. The Right has been shown to be hypocritical in their previous upholding of free speech in America. Suddenly, when they are in power universities and academics are being penalised and disappeared if they have written or said anything critical of the policies of the US and its special ally Israel. The once great defenders of free speech have fallen silent as ICE go about grabbing people off the streets and deporting them to a foreign jail in El Salvador without due process.
He specifically referred to conservatives’ obsession with “free speech” and the liberal “thought police”, while arguing in the same breath for CNN to be banned from the airwaves, among other proposed cancellations and censorship.
“Generally, you’ve gotta search the archives for contradictions on one’s stated principles, dig through policy papers to uncover private actions that are undermined by someone’s public stance, but this is so blatant,” said Stewart. “I can’t wrap around it. It’s not even the hypocrisy, it’s that they so fetishize free speech, this thing that they do not in any way actually practice.”
Stewart cited Trump banning the AP from the White House for refusing to rename the Gulf of Mexico to “the Gulf of America”, and the detainment of Columbia student protester Mahmoud Khalil.
“These guys don’t give a fuck about free speech,” he said. “They care about their speech. It’s such blatant hypocrisy.”
A View From The Tops To Where We Were Heading
It is one thing to bemoan woke policies and wish to blame your own discontent on soft targets like migrants, refugees and LGBTQI folk but quite another to strip citizens and denizens from their human rights. The parallels with the Nazis are, perhaps, too close to the bone of the matter? Politics is about power and the getting of it dominates the efforts of those involved. Getting elected and governing are quite separate things. Galvanising populist rage is one skill but having to govern for all of the population is a distinctly different responsibility. Trump is making a king sized mess of things. The cost to America will be in the hundreds of billions and, perhaps, trillions. The damage to lives will be long lasting; and whether many public institutions will ever recover is doubtful. The Right is on the nose for good reason. We are fortunate to get this prescient view of where we were heading.
Right Wing Champions Are In It For Their Own Aggrandisement
These folk don’t care about the things that they are championing, as they are in it for the power and the wealth it brings. The price of eggs aint getting any cheaper in America, as promised by Trump. Indeed, his tariffs will push the prices of most thing up and inflation will be back for all of us around the globe. Hire clowns and you should expect a circus. Trump’s cabinet are bereft of economic expertise and expertise, more generally, in governing. The important message for most of us is that you cannot rely on the old hierarchies anymore. America is now an unreliable ally and world leader. It is no longer safe to have so many eggs in this basket. Our politicians will all have to reframe their assumptions about the world stage and global power. America has shot itself in the foot but the wounds may be far greater and it has a propensity for fire arm’s injuries.
Peter Dutton Australia’s Champion On The Right
Peter Dutton, in Australia, has been having trouble declaring his financial interests. You would think a politician who served in government in ministerial positions for so many years would be competent in this regard. Indeed, as an ex policeman one would assume that he would be rigorous in all things to do with the law. Not so, alas. Multi million dollar family trusts are usually set up to minimise tax and occasionally to hide stuff from prying eyes. Is this the behaviour of someone dedicated to serving the Australian people? Or is it a bloke having a bob each way?
These financial arrangements are not slight, rather they are substantial. Peter Dutton and his family empire own 26 residential properties, I believe. Many Australians are unable to afford a single family home. Many cannot, currently, cope with the high rents forced upon them by an economy valuing homes way beyond the average incomes of Australian workers. Dutton was a minister for nearly 10 years of Coalition governments. He and his ilk are responsible for the current economic climate in Australia.
“Opposition Leader Peter Dutton was the beneficiary of a family trust for two years, but did not disclose this to parliament.
Four Corners investigated property records for both leaders, finding Mr Dutton’s family, with his father Bruce, made almost $15 million over 20 years.
Documents show Mr Dutton’s family also had a long business history with former childcare mogul Eddy Groves and his family.”
“The LNP Coalition are never shy in making big statements about emotive topics like defence and law and order. Security is supposedly their thing. Expensive Coalition promises lite on detail. “$21 billion on defence”, as if just saying a big price tag will make Australia safer. Unfortunately, for us, it is a tiny bit more complex than that in the real world. Mere words and brash statements without proper costings are par for the course with the Coalition.”
Robert Sudha Hamilton is the author of America Matters: Pre-apocalyptic Posts & Essays in the Shadow of Trump.
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