It didn’t take long for a gleeful new anti-Trump narrative to grip the global media after elections in Canada and Australia delivered upset defeats to conservative parties.
“Trump Effect” headlines blared all over the world, blaming the American president for failures far from home.
Donald Trump as the kiss of death for conservative parties was the claim in most election post-mortem analyses.
It is a convenient excuse for the lackluster right-of-center Liberal-National Coalition in Australia rather than facing the reason for its historic wipeout at the hands of voters last week.
And it’s a comforting theory that gives Democrats hope that Trumpism will collapse in on itself at home, relieving them of any need to reform their policies or find electable leaders who aren’t weird or senile or corrupt.