"The prognosis for our democracy is, on this score, grim. Rarely has a Labor government so willingly forfeited the dignity of its office in a bid to surpass the caudillo instincts of an opposition leader so hopelessly unserious, so reflexively illiberal, and so utterly unsuited for leadership that his contempt for norms and customs rivals that of the perfidious moral degenerate who preceded him."
