In the clash between authoritarianism and democracy, we know what is winning hands down.

Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern, far-left on the political spectrum, is markedly anti-democratic. Her glib call for ‘inclusiveness’ while actively promoting the opposite – separatist, racist policies which virtually establish a ruling class of powerful and wealthy iwi (part-Maori, quasi-tribal organisations) – is contradictory and divisive.