America and the West have been given a reprieve from so-called “progressive” politics which have dominated in recent years.

With their power threatened, elites in the media, academia, politics and the corporate world reacted with hysteria to the possibility of Donald Trump’s return to the White House.

Ridiculous Hitler slurs and scares about the “end of democracy” coupled with Kamala Harris’s most prominent policy pitch for abortion-to-birth did not work.

She was still banging on about abortion in her concession speech today, despite its failure to attract voters.

Trump of course is not perfect and makes mistakes. But the level of vitriol seen through a politically weaponised judiciary, radically biased media and two assassination attempts has been unhinged.

Let’s hope it stops now he has been re-elected and that he is given a chance to enact the policy agenda Americans overwhelmingly voted for.

Sacred cows of the globalist “progressive” Left, including those held dear by elites in Australia’s Labor, Greens and Liberal parties, have been repudiated.

Telling children their gender is fluid will be booted from schools and the economy will be unshackled from cost-of-living-destroying net zero initiatives following Donald Trump’s return to the Presidency.

The so-called “progressive” political project that has plunged the West, including Australia, into decline has suffered a major setback.

Trump’s “drill baby drill” policy will unleash America’s abundant oil and gas resources, making energy and therefore the cost of everything cheaper.

Trump will withdraw from the Paris net zero agreement and that will bring down the cost of electricity.

Australia should do the same.

Families struggling to make ends meet will begin to prosper again if energy is made affordable again.

Trump’s proposed cuts to regulations and corporate tax rates will stimulate economic growth.

The US southern border will be secured following the illegal entry of around 15 million unvetted people.

Joe Biden and Kamala Harris were punished for not attending to the basics. That should be a warning to Australia’s political elites.

They pursued “progressive” ideology instead which resulted in high inflation, high debt, illegal immigration, men in women’s sports and abortion-to-birth.

Radical political correctness which stifles freedom of speech and religion will also be on the backburner under a Trump Administration without woke elites to drive it.

After having the proverbial kitchen sink thrown at him by a politically weaponised Justice Department and having been repeatedly labelled a “fascist” and his supporters “garbage”, Trump survived two assassination attempts to reclaim the Presidency after his loss in a tainted 2020 election.

As well as gender fluid ideology, Trump has vowed to get critical race theory “the hell out of our schools”.

Kids will be taught to be proud of America again.

Imagine if we could do that in Australia instead of the annual Australia Day round of self-loathing.

Trump’s political comeback is one of the greatest of all time.

After the Democrats and the “deep state” tried everything to destabilise his first Presidency with a fake Russia investigation and impeachments, a battle-hardened Trump will be more productive this time.

Former Democrat Elon Musk’s purchase of the social media platform Twitter, which he renamed X, kept free speech alive.

His contribution and that of Robert F Kennedy’s endorsement should not be underestimated.

Australian politics needs to big rocks like this to be thrown into the pond.

Unlike at the 2020 election, the tech giants and the mainstream media were unable to control the information flow by suppressing critical stories like the Hunter Biden laptop story which undoubtedly influenced the outcome.

Trump is certainly a flawed vessel, and his narcissism and American brashness can grate.

But he has courage in spades, staring down vitriolic opposition from political and media elites and not to mention those two assassination attempts.

Remember, he was initially opposed vigorously by his own Republic Party. The same forces Trump overcame in the Republican Party are the ones that still control Australia’s Coalition parties.

The question for Australia is, is there anyone willing to push back on the status quo in the way Trump has?

A few Coalition backbenchers like the courageous Queensland Senator Matt Canavan have but they seem to be voices in the wilderness.

Australia’s political establishment is entrenched and the Coalition seems unwilling to be bold except on nuclear energy which to their credit is a promising sign but not enough.

Australian political leaders actively support or acquiesce through their silence to gender fluid ideology’s claims on children and the Left’s anti-free speech agenda that is enforced through a regime of chilling anti-discrimination and anti-vilification laws.

Both sides of politics are on board with net zero, although the Coalition’s nuclear solution is, as mentioned, a green shoot.

Coalition policy still allows windmills and solar farms to be rolled out, unnecessarily blighting the landscape and adding to household power bills.

The US has been spared another four years of disastrous Democrat policies carrying the agenda of the “progressive” elites.

This will provide cover for Australian politicians willing to rush the guardians of the “progressive” orthodoxy which exist in Labor, Liberal and Greens political establishment.

Whether Australia takes advantage of the Trump reprieve will depend upon courageous leadership.

Sadly, none in the major parties come to mind.

It is why Family First continues to build a political movement to bring down the cost of living, restore parents’ rights to protect their kids from radical ideology and to get the government off the back of faith-based-schools.

We imagine a world where women with unsupported pregnancies are supported and that abortion becomes unthinkable, starting with winding back late term abortion.

The Liberals and Nationals were just this week gagged by Peter Dutton on the greatest moral issue of our time.

The modern “progressive” Left as it is incarnated in the major parties, fights for children to be sacrificed on the altar of individual autonomy, family budgets on the altar of the climate cult and freedom of religion and speech on the altar of political correctness.

The next four years provides an opportunity for Australian political leaders to drain the billabong.

Only a lack of courage stands in the way.