Goodbye Dictator Dan

So was every man and his dog, Albo, I don’t think anyone was expecting Danny boy to bow out quite this abruptly. I don’t know, I don’t live in Victoria, so I don’t know if he was actually the tyrant or the genius his detractors and fans claimed he was. He was in the same unenviable position the rest of the world’s political leaders, at whatever level of their respective governments, were in back in 2020, and he probably could’ve done some things better than he did, and by the same token he almost certainly did it better than the Liberals would’ve done, and come election time last year Labor wound up with another landslide victory. So enough people must’ve thought Andrews was doing enough right.

Speaking of the Libs, Victorian Lib leader John Pesutto has been fairly graceless in his acknowledgement of Andrews’ years of service, but he’s not in a great position to talk himself; whatever else Dan has done, he’s not being threatened with legal action by a Nazi fellow traveller within his own party. I think even John has to admit Dan has at least that much going for him; I don’t know what Victorian Labor may have wrong with it (there has to be something, I’m sure), but I’m guessing far-right lunatics isn’t the problem for them that it is for Pesutto’s mob.