What is under emphasised and under estimated by Hirst is the importance of Murdoch media to all three stooges. Murdoch unites these puppets on his string. (ODT)

The bottom line is that these “leaders” need each other. Their relationship to each other is both a political necessity for their survival and an indicator of their shared streak of self-righteous conservatism.

If they were just harmless buffoons like the Three Stooges, we’d have nothing to worry about. But they’re not harmless — they are putting the entire planet in harm’s way.

We should not be in any doubt, Morrison, Trump and Johnson need each other and feed off the political climate their conservative populism is generating.

We will see this in full flight soon when the C-PAC circus comes to town. C-PAC, the Conservative Political Action Conference, will be in Sydney for the first time from 9-11 August.

The line-up of speakers is a who’s who of deplorables. Our homegrown Trumpsters will be there, many of them from the Murdoch media stable, alongside several far-right members of the Federal Government and an assortment of Islamophobes, whiteness virtue signallers and grifters.

Morrison has already defended his colleagues who will attend it using the lame excuse of “freedom of expression”. Trump’s Fox News amplifiers are coming; Boris Johnson’s new mate Nigel Farage will also be there fresh from his starring role in the Brexit dirty tricks campaign. Meantime, Tony Abbott, Mark Latham and Campbell Newman will be representing the nasty underbelly of Australia’s political elite.

 

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