Nothing much has 'changed' that I've been following, existing trends are simply continuing to play out. Perhaps the biggest 'change' is DiMaio's support of the Yellow Vests; it helps perhaps put into perspective exactly what M5S stands for; but given that there are likely some readers who don't know who DiMaio, M5S, or possibly even the Yellow Vests are, you can see why I don't dwell on it.
Perhaps the most interesting thing I've learned in the past week has to do with Mark Latham.
The 2005 Australian election was the first Australian election I followed live; and Mark Latham was the Labor leader at the time. His "handshake" always struck me as very very odd. I couldn't put my finger on it but in the 'age of Trump' it becomes more clear that his actions seemed something a right-leaning leader would do, not a left-leaning one.
As such perhaps it then makes some sense to find out that Latham has not only left Labor behind, but has joined One Nation, the neo-nationalist "Trumpish" party in Australia.
He is running for the state Senate in New South Wales. He's also become the leader of the state party.
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