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Trump’s Path Back: How Shifting Politics and Powerful Voices Reshaped the Election

November 6, 2024 By Nicholas Kerr Leave a Comment

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Obama’s subtle snub of Harris, voter fatigue with executive overreach, and the vocal support of CEOs like Elon Musk and Bill Ackman reset the 2024 race. By shifting the Overton window on immigration, the economy, and constitutional norms, these business voices helped clear a surprising path back to power for Donald Trump.

Filed Under: Policy Rants Tagged With: Donald Trump, new zealand, Obama

Isolationist policies start to catch NZ up

March 8, 2024 By Nicholas Kerr Leave a Comment

On the eve of Prime Minister Helen Clark’s meeting with United States President George W. Bush, and other officials, it is not just the US in Anzus that New Zealand should be concerned about, writes NICHOLAS KERR. Closer to home, our relationship with Australia is not what it used to be either. [This op-ed originally […]

Filed Under: Policy Rants Tagged With: Anzus, australia, brian mulroney, Canada, george w bush, helen clark, new zealand, united states

Loving Uncle Sam

March 8, 2024 By Nicholas Kerr Leave a Comment

This country’s education system has failed for decades to provide young New Zealanders with any context of the world’s only superpower and its people. There was virtually no mention of America during my own schooling; the only foreign country we studied was the global nonentity Fiji.

Filed Under: Policy Rants Tagged With: david lange, helen clark, new zealand, united states

More evidence of child COVID lockdown harm

February 18, 2024 By Nicholas Kerr Leave a Comment

The Sydney Morning Herald reports on more evidence of ongoing harm to children as a result of Australia’s harsh lockdown policies. We’ve seen the same disastrous impact on the lives of a generation of youngsters in US states that closed schools the longest, as well as countries like New Zealand that had repeated lockdowns. It’s […]

Filed Under: Policy Rants Tagged With: america, australia, COVID-19, new zealand

UK spike in non-COVID deaths a sign of things to come in other countries that locked down hard?

August 21, 2022 By Nicholas Kerr 1 Comment

A startling article out of the UK reports that, entirely unrelated to COVID, England and Wales are experiencing 1,000 excess deaths a week is cause for alarm in countries that also enforced strict lock-downs. Concerns were raised as early as mid-2020 that locking down would result in precisely what appears to be happening. The piece, […]

Filed Under: Policy Rants Tagged With: australia, COVID, new zealand, UK

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I’m Nicholas, a marketing consultant and dad in Dallas, TX. I like to follow policy debates, chat about parenting and share stories. Read More…

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