16 July

Those who look at what’s happening in the US politically with horror, need to carefully assess the teams at this year’s local government elections in NSW. Local government is where a lot of the Trump base target local Australian people, with Trumpian ideas, through social media. There are quite a few teams running for councils across the State that are fronts for Trumpism. They won’t always advertise that explicitly, but you can identify them by their big populist claims, and constant attacks on existing councils for being ‘incompetent’ and ‘corrupt’, and their claim to be champions of ‘the people’ over these corrupt councils. Everybody loves to give the local council a good kicking, they’re tapping into that. State and federal government processes tend to weed this stuff out, but a lot of it is getting through unfiltered to local areas and local government. Proud Trumpians have already won seats on councils.