To digress slightly, Sky News had no hesitation in spending hours criticising the party that they backed. This is a defining difference between right and left wing media. Following the American election, did anyone hear any criticism from the left-wing media concerning Kamala Harris? Far from it: according to them she ran a brilliant campaign, which, of course, was nonsense.
It was Trump who ran the brilliant campaign that led to his comprehensive win. You would think the right elsewhere would have taken notice and done some analysis on what strategies he employed to achieve such an emphatic win. If they had, they would have seen there was nothing complicated about how he went about the task. Find out the issues engaging the voters’ minds, find out their wants and needs around these issues, campaign on them and follow through by enacting them.
If you want to win the confidence of the people and take them with you then that is how it’s done. It is a simple mechanism that works. If like the left, you campaign on ideology and tell endless lies, that is only a winning strategy if the parties on the other side are weak and woke, which has proven to be the case in both Canada and Australia. The other glaring similarity is they both adopted an anti-Trump stance.
As the commentators on Sky News pointed out, that is a sure-fire election loser. It’s a loser because most on the right are supportive of Trump and the sorts of policies he is implementing. They rather hope similar strategies might be adopted by their own parties and when they instead see opposition to the man, they lose faith in their own side. Many will decide to simply not vote, which allows the left to win.
Conservative voters are looking for leaders who show a willingness to work with Trump and employ some of his election-winning strategies and enact them. This was a failure on the part of the conservative leaders in Canada and Australia and they both paid the price for failing to deliver what their voters wanted. Some might think it fashionable to take an anti-Trump stance, but not if you’re representing the right.
Compare this to Nigel Farage and Reform, who in last week’s UK council elections executed a political earthquake by destroying both Labour and the Conservatives with some stunning results. He also won a by-election off Labour, giving him another MP in parliament. He has possibly destroyed the two-party system in Britain for good, simply because Farage operates from the Trump playbook. Keep it simple and talk to the wants and needs of the people – the things they want fixed like immigration.
Trump and Farage stand out as the two political leaders who know how to win. Sure they are both egotists but voters on the right, unlike those on the left, don’t care about that. They like the man because they like the policies: they like the feeling that the politician is on their side. He’s speaking their language and addressing their concerns on matters like the excessive amount spent on climate change, government waste, DEI and gender matters, to name but some.
These are also the concerns of conservative voters in this country, plus racial equality. Too many leaders on the right are afraid to show the kind of leadership that Trump and Farage are exhibiting, but being nice and trying to please everyone is a bad strategy, because you end up pleasing no one. Your own voters don’t know what you stand for. Lack of strength and courage will not endear you to right-wing voters. They stay home allowing the left to come in through the back door on a minority vote.
Our own election next year is not going to be immune. Luxon, Willis and Bishop must recognise the angst that exists among voters on the right, particularly regarding the issue of racial equality. The prime minister can say it’s been done and dusted all he likes, but the truth is it hasn’t. It is still there and will continue to be until the election and beyond if not sorted.
This issue is one National was voted in to fix. Not doing so could cost votes at the ballot box, mine included. Trump would never handle an issue like this the way Luxon has. He would see it as a problem and address it according to the wants of the people. If Luxon and Peters between them allow this sore to continue to fester, then the obvious answer is to party vote ACT at the next election. Peters’ private members bill is not the answer because it does not go far enough.
Recent experiences at the ballot box should be a wake-up call to conservative leaders everywhere. The road to victory is to take the people with you. Failing to do so is to invite electoral oblivion as Australia and Canada have found to their cost. They decided to let Trump Derangement Syndrome take hold and followed that path. Voters on the right do not admire weakness and wokeness. Luxon, Willis and Bishop need to wake up and take note.
The left media are, of course, twisting facts regarding these elections to suit their own political narrative. What makes it worse is they actually believe in the river of misinformation they continue to spout. They are trying to make Trump look like the villain in the piece when the opposite is the case, as stated by Sky News. This is another excellent example of why left wing media are no longer believable.
JC is a right-wing crusader. Reached an age that embodies the dictum only the good die young. This article was first published HERE
It was Trump who ran the brilliant campaign that led to his comprehensive win. You would think the right elsewhere would have taken notice and done some analysis on what strategies he employed to achieve such an emphatic win. If they had, they would have seen there was nothing complicated about how he went about the task. Find out the issues engaging the voters’ minds, find out their wants and needs around these issues, campaign on them and follow through by enacting them.
If you want to win the confidence of the people and take them with you then that is how it’s done. It is a simple mechanism that works. If like the left, you campaign on ideology and tell endless lies, that is only a winning strategy if the parties on the other side are weak and woke, which has proven to be the case in both Canada and Australia. The other glaring similarity is they both adopted an anti-Trump stance.
As the commentators on Sky News pointed out, that is a sure-fire election loser. It’s a loser because most on the right are supportive of Trump and the sorts of policies he is implementing. They rather hope similar strategies might be adopted by their own parties and when they instead see opposition to the man, they lose faith in their own side. Many will decide to simply not vote, which allows the left to win.
Conservative voters are looking for leaders who show a willingness to work with Trump and employ some of his election-winning strategies and enact them. This was a failure on the part of the conservative leaders in Canada and Australia and they both paid the price for failing to deliver what their voters wanted. Some might think it fashionable to take an anti-Trump stance, but not if you’re representing the right.
Compare this to Nigel Farage and Reform, who in last week’s UK council elections executed a political earthquake by destroying both Labour and the Conservatives with some stunning results. He also won a by-election off Labour, giving him another MP in parliament. He has possibly destroyed the two-party system in Britain for good, simply because Farage operates from the Trump playbook. Keep it simple and talk to the wants and needs of the people – the things they want fixed like immigration.
Trump and Farage stand out as the two political leaders who know how to win. Sure they are both egotists but voters on the right, unlike those on the left, don’t care about that. They like the man because they like the policies: they like the feeling that the politician is on their side. He’s speaking their language and addressing their concerns on matters like the excessive amount spent on climate change, government waste, DEI and gender matters, to name but some.
These are also the concerns of conservative voters in this country, plus racial equality. Too many leaders on the right are afraid to show the kind of leadership that Trump and Farage are exhibiting, but being nice and trying to please everyone is a bad strategy, because you end up pleasing no one. Your own voters don’t know what you stand for. Lack of strength and courage will not endear you to right-wing voters. They stay home allowing the left to come in through the back door on a minority vote.
Our own election next year is not going to be immune. Luxon, Willis and Bishop must recognise the angst that exists among voters on the right, particularly regarding the issue of racial equality. The prime minister can say it’s been done and dusted all he likes, but the truth is it hasn’t. It is still there and will continue to be until the election and beyond if not sorted.
This issue is one National was voted in to fix. Not doing so could cost votes at the ballot box, mine included. Trump would never handle an issue like this the way Luxon has. He would see it as a problem and address it according to the wants of the people. If Luxon and Peters between them allow this sore to continue to fester, then the obvious answer is to party vote ACT at the next election. Peters’ private members bill is not the answer because it does not go far enough.
Recent experiences at the ballot box should be a wake-up call to conservative leaders everywhere. The road to victory is to take the people with you. Failing to do so is to invite electoral oblivion as Australia and Canada have found to their cost. They decided to let Trump Derangement Syndrome take hold and followed that path. Voters on the right do not admire weakness and wokeness. Luxon, Willis and Bishop need to wake up and take note.
The left media are, of course, twisting facts regarding these elections to suit their own political narrative. What makes it worse is they actually believe in the river of misinformation they continue to spout. They are trying to make Trump look like the villain in the piece when the opposite is the case, as stated by Sky News. This is another excellent example of why left wing media are no longer believable.
JC is a right-wing crusader. Reached an age that embodies the dictum only the good die young. This article was first published HERE
3 comments:
I would suggest that, now, National is no longer trusted to resolve the race issue in a fair and effective manner. It is considered biased towards Maori.
This results from its abysmal behaviour over the ACT TP Bill and other instances such as the MACA law, the Waitangi Tribunal and the MSM media . National's goose is cooked.
And Luxon has stated clearly that he does not care at all what other people think. In effect he has given National's voters the middle finger. Add to that the appointment by Luxon of MP Tama Potaka (formerly of the Maori Party) as Minister of Maori Development -- a Trojan Horse -- and you see Luxon as nothing but an arrogant, underhand, deceitful piece of flotsam (to put it in the mildest form of which I can think).
Luxon gives every impression of continuing Labour’s destructive policies, albeit in a rather more cunning and elusive form. I don’t believe the more conservative voter in this country can expect anything to be happy about under either major party. If the smaller operators are smart enough they will see the rich opportunities that lie ahead, ready to be seized and exploited.
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