Pyrrhic Victory is a victory that ‘inflicts such a devastating toll on the victor that it is basically the same as defeat’.
If October 14 really is Australia’s ‘Brexit Moment’, then ‘No’ voters must prepare to feel the wrath of an elite class that didn’t get their way.
In other words, the ‘No’ cause may win on Saturday, but the other side is just getting started.
As we saw first with Brexit, and then with Trump, when the regime suffers a setback, it does not simply forgive and forget.
Consider that last month, United States President Joe Biden declared the former President Donald Trump’s...
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