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Losing to win

Trump lets slip the conservative dogs of war

15 February 2025

9:00 AM

15 February 2025

9:00 AM

Long-term readers of the Speccie will recall that back in 2015 and 2016 I thought, and argued, that all conservative voters would do better to preference Labor rather than Malcolm Turnbull and the Libs in the 2016 election. In other words, I thought we had to lose short-term to win long-term.

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