Around the world the centre right is being upended, but it’s mainly ethnic nationalists giving grief to conservative managers of the status quo,

I know you’re thinking NZ First and ACT, but they are not anything like the national ethnic identity parties overseas, ACT, the only party ever to write “property rights” on a billboard, wants big government to butt in and stop owners using land how they like.

The closest we have to an ethnic nationalists party is Te Pāti Māori. Strip away the word Māori and focus on its nationalism, its attraction to Russia, its disregard for establishment conventions, its vague and unserious promises of redistribution in favour of its supporters, and TPM would fit into the mainstream of radical right parties anywhere.

You can imagine a fracture on the right here. On one side, the pro-development nation-builders, who want to use the government to build houses, roads, water pipes and ferries. On the other side, the establishment, defending the rigged status quo.

The anti-establishment parties in the Western world find their strongest support among struggling workers. What if we are seeing the return of economic class as a fault line?

Josie's Post column is here.