When Adolf Hitler was dictating his inane antisemitic Mein Kampf in prison in 1924, people thought he was a joke. Ten years later he became Fuhrer of the Third Reich.

Pauline Hanson is also considered by most as a short-sighted politician with plenty of grievances and no solutions besides her Trumpian call to stop immigration.

There are many others that also use the Trumpian drain-the-swamp analogies that to be progressive is elitist, condescending and lacking the common touch. Never mind that Donald Trump has since filled the swamp with billionaire elitists.

This century several Liberal party politicians have used similar language and moved the party further and further to the Right. Their views on the Voice, climate change and immigration have become almost synonymous with those of One Nation.

The diminishing number of moderate Liberals watch on as their rightist counterparts try to out-Hanson, Hanson. Unsurprisingly, their former supporters increasingly fail to see why they shouldn’t vote for One Nation, as they come to believe, albeit misguidedly, that Pauline has the whole box and dice.