No one doubts Malcolm Turnbull is intelligent. But is he smart?

Some commentators attribute the government’s popularity malaise to some lurch of public policy to the left of the political spectrum. They have obviously been seduced by some alternative truths to which ordinary Australians are not privy.

Since Turnbull’s past indicates a moderate liberalism, these self-proclaimed cognoscenti reason that the problems facing a government led by him must have their genesis in that political tradition.