For now,Australia’s democracy has Peter Dutton as the main voice of opposition. America’s system allows for no such powerful voice.
It is the world’s largest conservative event,and having succeeded in returning Donald Trump to the presidency,some are setting their sights on Down Under.
God,the back-again US president and pliant princes from Silicon Valley are the new Trumpian trinity.
There’s no more meaningful moment in American life than the transfer of power on Inauguration Day. This one will be different,for all the wrong reasons.
Joe Biden may be remembered as a fine president but his stubborn refusal to pass the torch for so long made it almost historically inevitable that Donald Trump would win again.
He lived for 100 years. While Jimmy Carter could not fulfil his goals as president,the values he stood for – honesty,compassion,morality – endure.
Christmas turkeys have a long and tough history. They deserve all the pardoning they can get.
How to respond to Trump’s triumph recalls how the Democrats answered Reagan. Bill Clinton’s election-winning shift had Reaganite notes,but what made for good politics often made for terrible policy.
Ronald Reagan sought to preserve democracy,freedom and liberty. Trumpism resembles none of that – and could well dominate American politics for a generation.
Access to guns does not fully explain the intensity of American political violence. There must be something more.