My Growing Sense of Disappointment

If you were to ask the preponderance of regular Liberal Party voters what they thought of the job Scott Morrison was doing as Prime Minister my sense is that most of them would say, ‘He’s doing pretty well’.  Certainly that’s what the Newspoll results indicate.  But what if you then asked those same people why they thought that?  I’ve tried it a few times here in Brisbane with some pretty well-informed political junkies.  The answers always seem to boil down to either (a) well, he’s better than Albo or (b) he’s done a really good job with COVID-19.  Okay, you’ll get an occasional person point out that he’s done a good job standing up to China and maybe to Facebook (the latter being hard to know right now as the details of the deal are not yet wholly clear).

But that’s it.  Nothing else.  Does any person anywhere think Scott Morrison is a fighter for freedom and the core values of Western Civilisation? No.  This is a man who has stated openly and with some…