What is rather surprising is the incongruence of expelling Moira Deeming because defending women’s rights was considered too damaging and the leadership team considered the Victorian public would be unable to believe that the women were not connected to the neo Nazis once shown evidence (evidence they were too lazy to discover), but, Pesutto confidently thinks what was presented by the team’s testimony will have no impact to his leadership position.
It is is all posturing, of course.
I wonder what would have happened had the media consultants-cum-leadership team staff done the work to discover the truth and published which group were the ‘women’ that the neo Nazis were there to support? Probably they couldn’t even if they had done the work. Because the reaction to Angie Jones’s misrepresented tweet would have still been an issue.
And I doubt that the leadership team would have wanted to expose the ‘eroticising infancy’ aspect. Because the group that the team were prioritising over women’s rights campaigners would have made wildly disproportionate accusations about that tweet.
However, it really does show how little the Victorian Liberal Party believes Victorians will be able to understand the complexities of what happened that day.
And it does highlight just how that team themselves will catastrophise situations without taking the time or effort to understand full context. They were/are stuck in polarisation mode. I wouldn’t consider that to be a strong political strategy.