be Nicky Hagerspend years seething about center-right boomersunironically title your new book "Dirty Work: The Taxpayers' Union and New Zealand's Hard Right" Rent free. Imagine actually thinking a vanilla lobby group that complains about local council spending on cycle lanes and consultants is some kind of shadowy extremist cabal. This is "Part Three of the Dirty Politics Trilogy", and he is still grasping at straws trying to make standard political lobbying sound like a massive conspiracy. Is this really what passes for investigative journalism in NZ now?
Beer-belly conservative blue-collar workers simply existing is enough to make anyone who describes themselves as "progressive" or even "moderate" seethe in anguish and make endless strawmans on the internet.
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