What is amusing is when less experienced American conservatives, like, say, Dave Rubin, interview the likes of John Anderson, there is the uncomfortable dancing around the fact that, to Rubin's ear, Anderson comes across as an American liberal.

Anderson, for his part, likes to drop a few religious (Christian) affirmations to calm the waters, and probably to ease Rublin's fear that his audience will think he's 'turning socialist'.

Frank wrote on Nov 10^th, 2025 at 9:07am:

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Post one experienced political commentator who contradicts what I've posted... Just one... and make sure they're of the Sir Niall Ferguson, Rory Stewart, Alastair Campbell, Michael Wolff calibre...

You won't find one.

It's often an in-joke between British and Australian commentators when listening to inexperienced American commentators waxing lyrical on the commonalities between Australian/British political sensibilities when misaligned with American ones.

My reference to Dave Rubin was to highlight what happens when inexperienced commentators turn up in Australia expecting left and right to mean the same thing here as they do in the US.

Would any Australian mainstream conservative politician publicly rail against universal healthcare, tight gun laws, publicly funded education, environmental regulation or pragmatic, secular governance?

It was a conservative Australian Prime Minister who championed and rammed through the tightest gun law legislation in the nation's history, which has remained intact for nearly 30 years, despite multiple governments - in American terms, that's about as extreme left as you can get, without the green uniform and red-star beret.