PETER VAN ONSELEN: How the Greens and a cabal of Aussie left-wing commentators lost their minds over Donald Trump's election win - sharing offensive graphics and calling for Australia to take drastic action
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The US Presidential election hadn't even been declared yet, but right on cue the Australian Greens were already frothing at the mouth about Donald Trump's imminent political success.
For some, democracy is only a wonderful thing when your people win.
The minor party, most likely to control the balance of power in the event Anthony Albanese loses his majority at the next federal election, has led the charge attacking the soon to be US President-elect.
Greens leader Adam Bandt, unusually, was the most reasonable Green parliamentarian on social media, tweeting 'this is a pretty terrifying outcome for many of us'.
But once his team started to take aim at Trump, it didn't take long for Bandt as leader to follow them.
Senator Jordon Steele-John led the charge, simply tweeting 'end AUKUS' - a reference to Australia's $368bn nuclear submarine deal with the UK and the USA - as though isolating Australia from its number one ally is the best way to go, especially if you think re-electing Trump will only add to global instability.
Soon afterwards Bandt issued a media release demanding Labor cancel the AUKUS agreement altogether.
Senator Larissa Waters posted: 'Like many of you, I'm still in shock that a misogynist, sexist and racist conman who doesn't accept climate science looks likely to have been elected to lead a global power that Australia has so many ties to.'
Greens Senator Larissa Waters (pictured) said she was in 'shock that a misogynist, sexist and racist conman' looked likely to be the next president
Donald Trump (pictured with his wife Melania) claimed victory, saying 'this is the greatest political movement of all time'
Unless you decide to emulate Hillary Clinton or Joe Biden and label Trump supporters 'deplorables' or 'garbage', surely the more useful thing to understand is why so many mainstream Americans are prepared to vote for Trump despite all his failings.
Many who voted for Trump are sick of the political class and the way many on the left choose to lecture the mainstream with a contempt that they can barely hide - such as the Greens are doing again now.
At time of publication Trump looks set to even win the popular vote - not just a majority of the Electoral College, the state-based voting system that determines who is elected President.
The attitude dismissing the mainstream is not limited to US political decision making. Trump isn't the cause of political problems in the US, he is a symptom of them. Understanding what they are, in a bid to address them, is the cure.
That includes understanding the attitude in voter-land that gets Trump elected, twice now, and therefore allows the likes of Trump to succeed despite his well-documented failings.
The problem with such an approach is it would require some self reflection on the part of the self appointed guardians of what is right and wrong. Self-reflection isn't exactly a strong suit for the Greens.
Nor is it for the cabal of commentators who were also quick to attack the looming democratic result in the world's most famous and powerful democracy.
Greens leader Adam Bandt (pictured) has taken aim at Trump by declaring the Labor party should cancel the AUKUS agreement
Mike Carlton, presumably joking at least, tweeted 'it might just be possible for us to seal a defence treaty with our biggest customer. CHINAU.'
I'm not sure holding military hands with a genocidal dictatorship is necessarily the lesser of evils compared with tolerating another four years of a democratically elected Trump as US President.
Legal blog Justinian's tweet delineating between Democrat and Republican states - with the South labelled 'dumbf***istan' while the Democratic west and east coast along with the and Great Lakes regions described as 'America' - neatly summarises the elites' contempt for the mainstream.
I personally would rather Trump didn't return as President, not least of all because of the way he carried on when he lost four years ago.
But at least he knows how to upset the right people.
That said, the outrage brigade is always easily upset.
Perhaps they should be grateful for Trump's return. He'll give them plenty more to whinge about, that's for sure.
