One Nation under Pauline

Every unhappy country is unhappy in its own way

All your life you've never seen
Woman taken by the wind
Would you stay if she promised you heaven?
Will you ever win?

—Stevie Nicks

We should be less surprised by the current surge in support for One Nation than by the fact that such support has taken so long to consolidate. Honestly, you can’t overstate the extent to which mainstream politics has failed a significant proportion of the population and you can hardly blame people for looking for alternatives. The One Nation alternative has been plying its grievances for decades now and the times currently suit it very well.¹

Democracy's Disastrous Egg-dance, (1884), Joseph Keppler. A woman labeled "Democracy" wearing a blindfold labeled "Stupidity" is pushed by Samuel J. Randall toward a chair labeled "Presidenti[al] Chair", with several eggs in the way on the ground, they are labeled "Honest Naval Appropriation, Civil Service Reform, Honest River - Harbor Appropriation, Economy, Anti-Silver Coinage, National Banking System, Tariff Reform, [a…