Donald Trump’s destiny from 2015 was always to restore  Western dominance over its external enemies. But perhaps more importantly, his destiny is also to prevail over the enemy within, the hard left’s ideological creation, wokeism.

These are ideas designed to destroy the West from within, alien ideas that common sense and sanity reject but which, too often, the establishment goes along with, either because they are indoctrinated or because they are corrupted and want a quiet life.

As one of Australia’s greatest political strategists, Rick Brown, warns in an essay in Connor Court Quarterly, citing Lord Keynes, that ‘the power of vested interests is vastly exaggerated compared with the gradual encroachment of ideas’.

On this point, Australians must thank Labor’s hard-left leader, Anthony Albanese, for revealing how communist Antonio Gramsci’s long march through the institutions has penetrated even corporate Australia.

It was Albanese’s apartheid referendum that encouraged a significant number of big business company directors to think the battle had been won and to come out with unwise, premature support.

Meanwhile, that other significant part of the establishment, the mainstream media, followed the Americans. Most were determined Trump should not have a second term. They failed and Trump’s inauguration is already having a dramatic effect across the West, including Australia.

This will, of course, weaken Australia’s hard-left Prime Minister and core ministers and strengthen parties on the right, the Coalition and the minor parties, One Nation, Libertarians, etc. While the Australian electoral system is designed to support the major parties, minor parties can play an increasing role in discouraging Labor-lite policies just as the extreme-left Greens drag Labor to the hard-left. The Coalition, no doubt encouraged by the minor parties, would be wise to support Trumpian policies which would obviously be popular in Australia.

They should not, for example, too strongly differentiate themselves from Trump on climate when as a result of his walking out of the Paris Accord, Australia’s aim for a net zero target has been exposed even more as the national suicide note it always was.

And when Trump came up with the sensible proposal that the Gaza population be housed in Arab countries while reconstruction takes place, why did the Coalition immediately rule that out?

After all, when the Arab powers launched an attack on Israel immediately on independence from the UK mandate, about 800,000 Jews were expelled from a range of Arab countries , often with most of their property seized. Israel absorbed them all.

The 700,000 Arabs who left Israel on the direction or advice of the Arab powers in 1948, being told they would be restored to their homes after the Jews were defeated and driven out, have been segregated in Arab countries and made hereditary refugees.

The only thing that will block a temporary move of the population is the absolute refusal of other Arab countries, unlike the Albanese government, to take in Gazans.

As to Australia following Trumpian policy,  some in the media are engaged in a last-ditch attempt to block this. The lead headline in the Weekend Australian’s Inquirer was ‘Trump agenda won’t work in Australia’.

It could, and not only in Australia. A recent poll published by the UK Telegraph asked respondents what they thought of Trumpian policies being applied in the UK, without these being attributed to Donald Trump. One on reducing illegal migration through deportation was supported ( in percentages) 58:25. Another, on overhauling the trading system through tariffs, was also supported 56:23. So too was one to end socially engineering ethnicity and gender into almost every aspect of public and private life in a society that is both colour-blind and merit-based. This was supported 53:23. Another on energy independence declared that the party would bring prices down, fill up gas reserves again and export British energy all over the world so that the UK would be a rich country again. This was supported 55:26.

Can anyone seriously doubt that respondents in Australia, or anywhere, would not react similarly?

Incidentally, one of the current criticisms of executive orders is erroneous. Arguing for the superiority of our constitutional monarchy, one Facebook page claims executive orders bypass Congress but have the ‘same force behind them as legislation’. Not so. Reviewable in the courts, executive orders are simply orders to the civil service. Any legal impact must be supported by the Constitution or legislation made by Congress. We saw worse in Australia during Covid, where ministers relied on broad regulatory powers too carelessly delegated by parliaments.

As to support for Trump, focus groups  which were held for the UK Telegraph by a major consultancy, Public First, are persuasive. From 2016 they say they have heard ‘endless disapproving comments’ about Donald Trump’s personal conduct and even his broad political views. This has been balanced by the view that ‘at least he gets things done’. This was especially so during his first term when Britain had voted for Brexit but the politicians failed to get a ‘decent Brexit deal’.

Even after the 2020 election and when he was dragged through court cases thought likely to block his return, Public First’s  Ed Shackle says the idea of Trump as an ‘Action Man’ survived. Shackle says he recently heard comments in focus groups from Tory voters exasperated by Rishi Sunak’s failure to turn things around.

He recalls Josephine, a 64-year-old sales assistant, saying, to nods of agreement from fellow participants, that she would like to see a British version of Trump. She insisted, ‘He put America first.’ She said she could relate to him, although he is a millionaire.  In words that any politician would envy, she said she could ‘sit there and have a conversation with him and listen to him… and believe him.’ She said she just didn’t trust ‘our politicians’.

More recently, one participant said of Trump, ‘He’s done one hundred things in one day, and Starmer still hasn’t done anything. We need a Trump.’

The situation is the same in Australia.

Just talk to Australians and listen to talk-back radio.