Howard began the slide referring to the LNP as a “broad church” courting cashed-up Pentecostals and Morrison was one who accepted his offer to makeover the LNP. Bob Santamaria and the DLP made religion the centre of Labor politics in the 50s and look how long it took them to recover. The ALP was branded “godless socialists” back then and Murdoch still does it today appealing to the fringe of Australian society. However, when any already concentrated minority decides to organize and join a political party history shows they can take over the party and form governments and they do. Because Howard opened the door Morrison and his ilk rushed in.
Even typing those words leaves a bad taste in the mouth. Will he attempt a come-back? Will his poisonous personality rear up out of the darkness? Or will he pull the pin on his parliamentary career, and move to the U.S., where nobody will know him, and he can make lots of money preaching to the terminally lost souls of the Trumpian world?