Ben Harnwell
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Christian tradition within the system of English common law.
It's very much a part of the proud heritage of the Australians who are here at this.
I get the point you're making about Le Pen five years ago, but
I think that that period now, largely due to your work and then that you were doing here in continental Europe, the idea that these are singular, isolated, populist, nationalist, economic nationalist iterations,
I think that was probably a security of some years ago.
Right now, the people are very conscious that they are aware of a national movement.
Obviously, it's going to be different from country to country.
And I think Dr. Thayer and I here are simply here to give representation of that fact.
And of course, if we're talking in terms of a convoy movement of an armada, the largest ship in
in that armada is, of course, MAGA and the American representation.
And that, I think, gives a momentum to everything we're trying to do in continental Europe, to everything that the Australians here are trying to do.
Because America, I say this repeatedly on the show, America is the most economically powerful, culturally powerful, militarily powerful nation that's ever existed on the face of the planet.
If America can absorb within its system
the principles delineated by MAGA, the independence, the need to put the nation first, the America first context, obviously, in America, if that is possible for America, then that is possible for every country around the world.
And that's very much, I think, why Dr. Thayer and I have been invited here
to make that message.
Not so much because, as I said to repeat, not so much because five, six, seven years ago, there was a slight hesitation, a slight radicalness that's very much been bedded down now.
But it's more of a case of, I think, sustenance, reinforcement and momentum, right?
to add to what Dr Thayer was saying, the strategy of advance in the elections last year was quite particular to target the Greens.
The Greens themselves had between Members of Parliament and Senators five representatives and the momentum was clearly behind the Greens and they declared publicly