I worry that Australia will do the same thing the USA did with Trump - not take the rise of a clownish, right-wing, well-funded arsehole seriously. Laugh at them, call them deplorable, don't engage. Assume the country could not possibly be so stupid as to elect them. Not swing real resources into a real fight. Then spend three or four years stunned into hand-wringing inaction as the clowns destroy, destroy, destroy.
It feels as if *exactly this* is happening with One Nation now. Preferential voting might soften the blow, but to get an idea of what it will be like, imagine the Howard years again, but with Pauline Hanson.
#AUSPol
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