Blaming Donald Trump for conservative losses in both Canada and Australia is being too kind to Peter Dutton

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

56% : Dutton consciously positioned himself as part of the global populist right that Trump leads.
51% : That may have cost him a victory that seemed certain months earlier, especially considering Carney made his campaign all about standing up to Trump.
48% : The Liberals should have been alarmed that in state elections and byelections last year, they were making almost no gains in metropolitan seats, whether inner suburban or outer suburban.
43% : Voters recognised this, even when Dutton half-heartedly tried to distance himself from Trump.
43% : But in the suffocating global environment created by Trump, there is limited room for brand differentiation.
39% : In Canada, Trump cheerfully presented himself as an existential threat to the country.
20% : The Coalition should resist seeing Trump as a natural disaster over which they had no control.

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