First Canada, now Australia. Our turn is coming.
"The boomerang was the brilliant invention of Australia’s Indigenous people. An angular, carefully crafted piece of wood, it has come to be used for actions or words that backfire on their originator.
It is thus appropriate that on Saturday, voters Down Under offered a potent lesson about the boomerang effect to Donald Trump and his MAGA faithful. The president hoped his dominance of the world stage would inspire an international swing toward the nationalist far right. Instead, Australians — angry and mystified by Trump’s tariffs — gifted their center-left prime minister, Anthony Albanese, whose Labor Party trailed in the polls only a few months ago, a landslide victory few predicted..."
"The boomerang was the brilliant invention of Australia’s Indigenous people. An angular, carefully crafted piece of wood, it has come to be used for actions or words that backfire on their originator.
It is thus appropriate that on Saturday, voters Down Under offered a potent lesson about the boomerang effect to Donald Trump and his MAGA faithful. The president hoped his dominance of the world stage would inspire an international swing toward the nationalist far right. Instead, Australians — angry and mystified by Trump’s tariffs — gifted their center-left prime minister, Anthony Albanese, whose Labor Party trailed in the polls only a few months ago, a landslide victory few predicted..."
