ONE OPINION I saw on X claimed, “A woman is not running for president again in my lifetime.” That may or may not be the case, but the facts are Kamala Harris experienced a crushing political defeat because of her agenda, not her gender.

It would be better if a woke, “progressive” liberal was not running for president again in my lifetime. Any common sense person with sufficient courage and conviction to lead the population out of the self-destructive spiral of “progressive” politics certainly could run and probably win.

President Donald Trump has wiped the political floor with the “progressives” who weaponised the media, the legal system and literal assassins against him to try to stop his agenda. So committed are they to their pathological hatred of everything traditional and patriotic they haven’t even considered being better people with better policies.

Yet again, with a much bigger electorate than Queensland’s 3.7 million enrolled voters, America’s 141.8 million voters in 2024 proved beyond all reasonable doubt that abortion is not the silver bullet to defeat pro life candidates which leftists and the Lying Harlot Media (LHM) believe it to be. The culture is changing.

Donald Trump is the person most responsible for overturning Roe V Wade, the appallingly dishonest decision by the 1973 Supreme Court which vainly imagined a constitutional right for healthy mothers to kill their healthy, preborn babies. If there was any easy target who could be stopped by rabid feminists and psychopathic lies about “women’s bodies” and “reproductive rights”, it was Trump.

Harris threw everything but the kitchen sink at winning the female vote with an abortion scare campaign, and nonetheless Trump romped home a landslide win of the electoral college with 312 votes, far more than the 270 needed to win the race to the White House. Not only that, but he also won the Senate and has a possible path to controlling the House as well. Of course, thanks to his first term as Mr President, the previously weaponised Supreme Court has been restored to upholding the Constitution instead of “progressive” activism.

The soon to be irrelevant Vice President’s concession speech acknowledged only the fact of her loss, and none of its meaning. Harris demonstrated the typical tin ear which helped Trump earn not only the Electoral College but the nationally significant popular vote with more than 50%. She claimed she would not concede the fight for what she campaigned on, declaring she was proud of her campaign – apparently still ignorant of the fact her policies were so thoroughly rejected by the people.

“We owe no loyalty to a president or a party, but to our Constitution, our conscience and our god.”

The “progressive” conception of the Constitution is that it is “a living document”. They mean the constitution can be reinterpreted over and again to suit their preferred outcomes, their vision of society. If that’s “loyalty” to the Constitution, it’s effectively meaningless.

The god of “progressives” is Moloch, who demands child sacrifice, and Kamala was the most bloodthirsty of all candidates ever to run.

That leaves her conscience, such as it is in light of the others.

So she’s loyal to no one and nothing but her pleasure.

That perfectly sums up “progressive”, Marxist, socialist deconstructionists like the American Democrat & Australian Labor/Green/Teal parties, and their days ruling are numbered, if only someone courageous will dare to challenge their immoral extremes.

We’ve passed peak woke. The politically “progressive” agenda is being roundly rejected, and now the federal Liberal Party of Australia can put greater confidence in their conservatives, while politely discounting the policy and campaign advice of the wet “moderates” in the party.

The most important lesson is that the best campaigns do not concede or capitulate the moral high ground. Woketivists boldly seek to impose their fundamentalist religion of moral relativism through extreme abortion policy, gender confusion, sexual promiscuity, climate and virus alarmism, and perpetual white guilt.

Peter Dutton can and must boldly lead the nation to moral maturity with the lessons learned from Donald Trump, although he shouldn’t attempt to imitate his style.

Recently, Dutton refused to accept the premise of an ABC reporter’s question which drew moral equivalences between the legitimate state of Israel and an internationally banned terrorist organisation, Hezbollah. It was brilliant and basic. More of that justified contempt for brazen media activism will certainly impress undecided voters and galvanise the Liberal Party’s base, volunteers and donors.

Gone is the case (if it was ever valid) that elections are won by centre-right parties matching Leftists’ climate alarmism with insane policies which serve only to drive the cost of electricity through the roof, and with it the cost of energy-hungry, nation-building industries.

Dutton can boldly announce the replacement of abandoned coal-fired power plants with the most environmentally sensible solution, nuclear power plants. There will be zero pillaging of prime agricultural land and wild bush for 1000s of kilometres of new transmission lines – or the cost. Best of all: cheap, reliable electricity from new generation technology will actually drive down living expenses, the real concern of most voters.

Young voters did not run to the candidate offering free gender mutilation surgeries, young ladies confronted in the toilets or contact sports by big blokes in frocks. They preferred a moral, conservative, common sense candidate who talked no nonsense.

Every Liberal candidate can campaign for the mandate to fully implement the findings of the Cass Review (which eviscerated the “gender affirmation” pseudo-science posing as healthcare) and make that abusive and real “conversion therapy”, actually harming our precious youths in gender clinics, as criminal legally as it is morally.

Gone is the case that self-loathing with endless recriminations against our nation’s founders and builders will win elections. Inventing phobias to protect terrible ideas doesn’t work anymore. Endless accusations of “systemic racism”, “white privilege”, “toxic masculinity”, “Christian bigotry” and “genocide” are now nakedly seen as irrational. Exposing the Labor/Green/Teal axis of wokism as the anti-Australian, anti-human extremism it is will win far more votes than it will lose.

What Trump has taught Liberals – if they’re paying attention – is that billion dollar budgets, celebrity parades and a galaxy of media outlets in your pocket can’t compete with boldly defending the moral high ground, common sense, and the humility to build our nation on the solid foundations already laid.

Arrogant pride, dripping condescension and sneering elitism is all progressives have to offer average Australians. We always wanted a better offer, and the allergy to moral issues has hamstrung Liberals’ effort to fight back. It’s time to put on the big boy pants, and actually fight for our families and our future.

History is ours to take with both hands and a firm grip.

Let’s show the Liberals and Nationals – and Labor – how much political support there is for ending the immoral neglect of babies born alive after failed abortions with an enormous list of names. If you would like to send Peter Dutton and his federal colleagues a message of support for a campaign to care for babies born alive, please add your name to the petition below and share this post with your friends.

Dave Pellowe is a Christian political educator & commentator, founder of The Good Sauce, convener of the annual Australian Church And State Summit and host of Good Sauce’s weekly The Church And State Show. Since 2016 Dave has undertaken the mission of arming Christians to redeem culture through events from Perth to Auckland, videos, podcasts and articles published in multiple journals across Australia and New Zealand. [more]

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