The Trump Effect: What Trumpian Politics Mean for Australia

U.S. President Donald Trump’s style of politics has infected Australia’s Liberal Party.

The norms that President Donald Trump shifts as the core of the Republican Party — and those his party allows him to shift — are highly influential on the Liberal Party in Australia.

This behavior marks the party as no longer a “conservative” party, but a radical one, and with its outsized influence on the Liberal Party this makes it more difficult for Australia to conserve its own liberal democracy.

However, it should be stressed that the Liberal Party is not in the same degraded state as the Republican Party.

Yet you can see the same flammable forces that have overwhelmed the Republican Party eating away at the Liberal Party.

Yet, it was reported recently in the Australian Financial Review that the Victorian Liberal Party is considering replacing its current leader because he isn’t feisty enough in his criticism of the Labor Party state premier on issues concerning the pandemic.

This article was written by Grant Wyeth

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