BOSTON, UNITED STATES — Back in 2015, shortly after the coup that brought Malcolm Turnbull to power, I contributed to a symposium hosted by the Sydney Traditionalist Forum. The question: ‘Do traditionalists have a place in the current party political system?’

Terry Barnes’s latest for the Speccie would’ve fit right in. We, too, mostly argued that ‘Bernardi would do better to stay inside the Liberal tent and continue to agitate from within to help the party rediscover what it stands for,’ for the sake of maintaining a ‘powerful, viable centre-right force for good in Australia.’ Then