Pauline Hanson’s populism is a joke. But there are lessons in it for ‘super-progressives’ | Peter Lewis

SS: interesting data about Greens and Labor to PHON supporters. Author suggests that the US Democratic approach of calling trump mean names and UK Labor of running to the right is the wrong move. Suggests that Labor should attack PHON form the left with economic policy. My own view is that it’s going to be a hard balance for labor to do it before the next elections because voters might think you’ve hoodwinked them because labor said they’d be a centrist incrementalist government

I think those who dislike the status quo especially those who are Labor and Greens supporters have no idea what they are unleashing if they put Pauline in power. In what world would putting PHON in power push any of their policy priorities into motion?

At best they’re hopelessly naive at worst they’re outright well meaning but not very good at thinking though the consequences of their actions