20 December

The definition of a fanatic or extremist is somebody who will insist on doing the same thing, despite all the evidence to the contrary. The new Trump tax cuts will be like the George W Bush tax cuts, crippling the American budget without producing jobs or growth. It’s not like you have to look hard to see it having been tried before. The twits in power in Canberra at the movement are following the same songbook. They’re fanatics, because we already know big tax cuts only do one thing. Make rich people even richer. But they know that, that’s their real constituency.