1 00:00:00,240 --> 00:00:03,240 Speaker 1: So his back. Trump is back in the White House. 2 00:00:03,279 --> 00:00:05,960 Speaker 1: It's official, and behind the pomp and ceremony are lessons 3 00:00:05,960 --> 00:00:08,760 Speaker 1: for politicians on the left here and around the world. 4 00:00:09,200 --> 00:00:14,480 Speaker 1: Labeling your opponent a racist, a Nazi, an extremist, homophobe, sexist, 5 00:00:14,720 --> 00:00:17,720 Speaker 1: anti trans a threat to democracy, a tyrant, remember that one. 6 00:00:17,760 --> 00:00:20,959 Speaker 1: A sexist, Well, they won't win you an election. Biden 7 00:00:21,079 --> 00:00:23,599 Speaker 1: and then Harris through the kitchen sink of threats about 8 00:00:23,640 --> 00:00:26,400 Speaker 1: Trump to the public, none of it stuck. The Obamas, 9 00:00:26,440 --> 00:00:30,720 Speaker 1: the Pelosis, the Clintons of the American political world did 10 00:00:30,720 --> 00:00:33,879 Speaker 1: their best to paint Trump as a dystopian dictator hell 11 00:00:34,000 --> 00:00:38,600 Speaker 1: bent on crucifying immigrants and minorities. And what happened. They lost. 12 00:00:39,360 --> 00:00:42,320 Speaker 1: He won a clean sweep of the battlegrounds, the House, 13 00:00:42,360 --> 00:00:45,360 Speaker 1: the Senate, the Electoral College, the popular vote half of 14 00:00:45,520 --> 00:00:49,920 Speaker 1: Latino voters, the highest ever for a Republican. His election 15 00:00:50,040 --> 00:00:52,000 Speaker 1: was a course run against the backdrop of a tough 16 00:00:52,080 --> 00:00:56,520 Speaker 1: economic conditions, inflation hitting punters hard, plus Joe Biden was well, 17 00:00:56,600 --> 00:00:59,840 Speaker 1: literally stumbling to the finish line, struggling to walk and talk. 18 00:01:00,360 --> 00:01:02,560 Speaker 1: But the fact remains that voters picked the guy who'd 19 00:01:02,560 --> 00:01:05,800 Speaker 1: been labeled all of these awful things because they trusted 20 00:01:05,880 --> 00:01:09,080 Speaker 1: him on the economy. And so what's the lesson here 21 00:01:09,200 --> 00:01:11,959 Speaker 1: for Chippy. It doesn't matter how many times you call 22 00:01:12,080 --> 00:01:15,720 Speaker 1: Seymour and or Luxeon a racist, It won't get you 23 00:01:15,840 --> 00:01:18,960 Speaker 1: back on the Treasury benches. Labour and its allies are 24 00:01:18,959 --> 00:01:21,199 Speaker 1: gearing up for a fresh onsoort of attacks on race 25 00:01:21,200 --> 00:01:23,280 Speaker 1: as the Treaty Bill goes to Select Committee. But here's 26 00:01:23,319 --> 00:01:26,720 Speaker 1: the thing most Kiwis won't be listening to that. Just 27 00:01:26,760 --> 00:01:28,880 Speaker 1: look at the poles they had the ipsos one out 28 00:01:28,959 --> 00:01:32,600 Speaker 1: last year number one issue inflation two, health three, economy 29 00:01:32,920 --> 00:01:38,160 Speaker 1: four crime, housing, poverty, race relations fifteenth. Those on the 30 00:01:38,240 --> 00:01:41,360 Speaker 1: left would do better, and we would all benefit from 31 00:01:41,760 --> 00:01:44,760 Speaker 1: if they had stopped the name calling start coming up 32 00:01:44,760 --> 00:01:48,400 Speaker 1: with some serious, credible, alternative economic plans to get this 33 00:01:48,560 --> 00:01:51,680 Speaker 1: country firing again. Labour was supposed to be the party 34 00:01:51,720 --> 00:01:54,920 Speaker 1: for the workers. They've let Provincial New Zealand down badly 35 00:01:54,960 --> 00:01:58,640 Speaker 1: with economic mismanagement and energy policies that may have suited 36 00:01:58,680 --> 00:02:01,400 Speaker 1: a speech at Unger in New York, but certainly not 37 00:02:01,480 --> 00:02:05,240 Speaker 1: the good people of Rupehu. And that's the lesson that 38 00:02:05,240 --> 00:02:08,080 Speaker 1: Trump is giving the left today. The recipe used over 39 00:02:08,120 --> 00:02:12,079 Speaker 1: the past decade of performative politics, even identity politics and 40 00:02:12,200 --> 00:02:16,840 Speaker 1: virtue signaling and demonizing your opponents. It no longer works 41 00:02:17,120 --> 00:02:21,560 Speaker 1: on the very people who matter most, the voters. For 42 00:02:21,680 --> 00:02:24,720 Speaker 1: more from the Mic Asking Breakfast, listen live to news 43 00:02:24,760 --> 00:02:27,680 Speaker 1: talks it'd be from six am weekdays, or follow the 44 00:02:27,720 --> 00:02:29,120 Speaker 1: podcast on iHeartRadio.