Half-a-dozen mainstream, left-wing publications have warned the Liberals about embracing Trumpian policies.

You should always do the opposite of what your enemy demands.

If someone stroking a hammer and sickle wants you to turn away from Trump, that means it’s time for the Liberals to finally ascend to the empty throne beside MAGA and Reform.

Don a red MAGA hat. Create a DOGE program. Hire young people to start a meme war.

If Angus Taylor doesn’t, Pauline Hanson certainly will. This is no longer an absent threat. One Nation has powerful, cashed-up friends and a groundswell of support big enough to tip Lower House seats.

It seems the Liberals are starting to get this message. For the last few days, they have been posting proper videos and updates to their social media accounts. Finally, they are visible in the medium where more than half their potential voters reside. This is a very good start.

But how to be Trumpian?

Trump is a vibe. He’s an attitude. His philosophy is a political instinct.

We can’t expect the Liberals to develop a sense of humour straight away. Character development takes time, so instead, the Liberals’ first step should be to capitalise on a leaked immigration policy to ban roughly 37 regions across 13 countries where radical Islam is a pressing concern. A hundred years ago, this would not have been a discussion, it would have been standard practice.

This is a safe, brand-building activity for Taylor’s base.

Believe it or not, it is also popular with young Australians who believe they have had their future stolen. All those ‘feel good’ slogans kids were fed about a borderless world died off pretty quick when they found themselves living alone, working minimum wage, saddled with university debt, and feeling like a tourist in their home suburb. These kids are the descendants of the Settlers, and they are hopelessly lost. Who are they going to vote for, the Greens?

That said, Angus Taylor did pivot stupidly, at least a little, when he told Sky News Australia the proposed migration ban wasn’t ‘about any particular race or religion’. He would have been off just to say, ‘Yes, of course we’re targeting radical Islam. Obviously. That’s the point.’

We are long past the point of pretending that migration isn’t linked to the emergence of Islamic terror in Australia.

The headlines so far are unhinged. ‘Prejudice’: Migrant ban sparks ‘Trump’ fears screamed one.

Which brings us to a critical point.

There’s a sacred cow in Australian politics where migration has to be free of prejudice. I think that’s mad. Almost every country, for almost the entirety of human history, has used prejudice to decide who can and who cannot enter. Why? For the same reason you prejudice the person at your front door. If a country is full of a hostile ideology that hates your way of life and has actively declared a sort of Holy War on its neighbours, would you let them in? Should America, for example, offer refuge to the Death the America! Iranians loyal to the Ayatollah? It’s only the West that has decided to experiment with a reckless ‘come one, come all’ philosophy, and it has triggered a potentially fatal collapse of their nations.

Not only should Australians decide which nation and which culture to accept into our little island home, we should be congratulated for showing prejudice against regions of the world ridden with Islamic terror. The safety of our streets, our children, and our people is paramount. We are not responsible for saving the world’s oppressed masses, just our own, and we will no longer be guilted into accepting unnecessary risks that lead to terror and intimidation on home soil. The ‘peace and love’ experiment is over.

Our modern politicians think that by being nice to everyone they are more civilised and serious than their predecessors, but they should read history more closely and then take a look at what their ‘niceness’ has done to the culture, economics, and safety of the nation.

Australians were promised that refugees and migrants were properly vetted, yet the size of the ASIO watchlist and the backgrounds of known associates (from what has been released) suggests glaring disparities between what citizens were promised, and what has actually taken place.

It is not racism or bigotry to ask, Are we safe?

Bleeding-heart politics has turned into blood on our streets, and that is wholly unacceptable.

What sort of safe haven can Australia offer to refugees in the future if combatants from the regimes they fled show up as their next-door neighbours?

Listen to what people who fled violent regimes are saying. They believe Australia is falling under the same horrific spell as their homelands. It’s time we grow up and get tough.

Politicians need to start telling the many organisations which saturate the press with criticism that their opinion has been rejected and that if they keep interfering, they will be defunded and disbanded.

Migrating to Australia is a privilege, not a right, and Australia is allowed to close the door whenever it wants without a guilt trip.

Trump has suspended immigration from 75 regions, and with good reason. He is in the process of cleaning up a substantial mess of crime and fraud created by decades of corruption. The Somali saga is an indefensible outrage that even Democrat voters are struggling to comprehend. Their generosity as taxpayers was not just abused, it was laughed at by an industrial scale operation. There is a suspicion that Australia has a similar problem within its extensive humanitarian and welfare system, but as yet, very few politicians have had the nerve to investigate.

So yes, taking hold of migration and breaking down the ridiculous ‘non-discrimination’ policy is an essential step in repairing Australia’s domestic security.

When Angus Taylor says, ‘Our focus is on bringing people to this country who believe in our values, who come here because they know this is the greatest nation on Earth. If they reject our focus on democracy … our basic freedoms … freedom of speech, freedom of religion … if they reject those things, the door must be shut…’ he will need to tell us how that will be enforced. There is an iron wall of taxpayer-funded, migrant-centred entities who will fight to stop Taylor from denying entry. And if he gets through that, academia itself is utterly drenched in anti-Australian, border-line hate. Taylor is in grave danger of ending up like Starmer whose promises faded to nothing.

We would like to see the Liberals take on the Trumpian mission and prove to the electorate how they plan on deporting those who broke their oath to this nation.

We await the Australian Trump.