By Mike King
NY Times: Why Jacinda Ardern Matters
New Zealand’s prime minister is emerging as the progressive antithesis to right-wing strongmen like Trump, Orban and Modi, whose careers thrive on illiberal, anti-Muslim and anti-immigrant rhetoric.
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Many months before the recent hoax shooting in Christchurch, New Zealand, the phenomenon of "JacindaMania"was already being pushed by the international Piranha Press. No offense to our New Zealand friends; but how peculiar that the Prime Ministerette of such a faraway land with a population roughly equivalent to just the city of Philadelphia should be showered with such international hype. Part of that can be explained as being due to Ardern's extreme Marxism (former President of the International Union of Socialist Youth) and also to her much hyped and oh-so "modern" 2018 unmarried, in-office pregnancy / childbirth. But we reckoned that there had to be something more behind this international push to canonize her so quickly.
Some past, pre-Christchurch headlines from "the paper of record" --aka Sulzberger's Slimes:
Jacina Ardern, New Zealand's Sudden Star, Gets Set to Govern Oct 20, 2017Jacinda Ardern Embraces Dual Role: New Zealand Prime Minister and Mom April 2, 2018Lady of the Rings: Jacinda Rules Sept 8, 2018
Jacinda Ardern's Progressive Politics Made Her a Global Sensation Sept 26, 2018
Now, thanks to Ardern's head-covering grandstanding, insincere "grieving" and overall "handling" of