Aotearoa is not America. But it is home to a kind of person who will declare with great vehemence and maybe even furious wrath don't call my country Aotearoa.
Such a person likely finds succour in the rhetoric of such a politician as Simon O’Connor.
He offers the same thing you’ll get from people like Plunket and Slater, the phrasing and framing all confected by bigger brains many thousands of miles from here, and decanted into the intellectual sewerage networks of Fox News and Alex Jones and evangelicals and MAGA and eventually finding its way here to men of a certain disposition.
