When the going gets tough, the votes get going

Ever since Pauline Hanson first appeared on the national stage a quarter of a century ago, her detractors and the MSM have sought to portray her supporters as a hard core of ignorant, reactionary, racist rednecks.

After yesterday’s Queensland election, it appears a more than sizeable chunk have instead been good old fashioned protest voters, simply sticking it up the majors.

When a crisis unprecedented in our lifetimes, a crisis with significant on the ground implications, has come along, they’ve had their “this is serious” moment and gone back to one of the big boys; ironically, for those who attempt to portray One Nation as a conservative rather than populist party, mainly to Labor.

As virtually all our media…