People no longer ‘hear’ the contradictions, if the contradictions are things they’re already subconsciously overlooking in and of themselves when it comes to their own personal preferential perspectives. Tame’s interview was interesting and entertaining; but a whole lot of people out there will, if anything, double down in their emergent support for Luxon. Not because anything Luxon said or did in that performance was ‘smart’ or visionary. Exposing that Luxon is not, in fact, (yet) the man to be able to dethrone Ardern does not induce his following to abandon ship. One of the (many) things George W. Bush proved was that you can, indeed, ‘flunk’ your way to victory.

Source: Stuff April 25, 2022 19:15 UTC