Among our supposedly liberal elites it has become common sense that populations must be controlled for their own good
With elections coming up in October, in which she would have been battling for a third term, Ardernthat she no longer has “enough in the tank” to lead. She will step down next month. “I am not leaving because I believe we can’t win the election,” she said, fighting back tears, “but because I believe we can and will, and we need a fresh set of shoulders for that challenge.
Indeed, it’s testament to the enduring power of Jacindamania — among journalists, if not the New Zealand public — that many have repeated her reasoning for stepping down totally uncritically. In the UK,might as well have been Ardern’s press secretary, so gushing was her take. “I’ve only ever seen political leaders forced out or voted out,” she tweeted, “but in Ardern we find a rare exception, who again shows us how to lead differently.
Of course, an unpopular leader barrelling out to escape highly probable electoral defeat is hardly a unique political story. But Rigby and the rest of the Ardern fanclub haven’t let that get in the way of one final love-in, before the NZ PM leaves office to spend more time with her family and the lucrative international-speaking circuit.
This global chorus of praise is a fitting send-off. Ardern is in many ways an archetypal leader of our age, in which politicians draw just as much legitimacy, if not more, from the warm feeling they give international elites than what it is they actually do and achieve for their domestic population. Indeed, her cheerleaders don’t even bother to look into those things. If they did, they’d see why Ardern is beating a hasty retreat.
It’s also striking that so many commentators are blissfully unaware of Ardern’s immigration policies, which they would surely label fascistic had a Tory PM pursued them here. Ardern first won power in 2017,
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