Hanson shows Australians aren’t as enlightened as they thought

I have to admit, I’m kind of enjoying Pauline Hanson’s rise.

The fun part is watching a certain breed of Australians discover that they are not as enlightened as they thought. You know the kind: They watched Donald Trump’s victory in America and reacted with the anthropological pity usually reserved for documentaries about hot yoga cults. “Poor Americans,” they said, “with their Fox News, their guns, their megachurches, their billionaires, their weird flag rituals, their political ignorance. Thank God we’re not like that.”