Summarize this content to 2000 words in 6 paragraphs The three horsemen of America’s populist renewal: Donald Trump, holder of the most powerful office in the world, Elon Musk, the richest person in the world, and Vice President J.D. Vance, Trump and Musk’s enforcer – will inevitably turn their focus to Australia’s election whenever it is called. By then, Trump will not need any prompt as to what AUKUS means, as he did on Thursday.Trump, Musk and Vance have form on overseas elections. Trump’s explosive assault on trade with Canada incited its prime ministerial contender Chrystia Freeland to declare Canada had to “push back against America First economic nationalism” – a tipping point in PM Justin Trudeau’s decision to end his reign.Election watch: While Albanese and Dutton prepare for battle, Trump, Musk and Vance are unlikely to resist commentary from afar.Credit: AAP, The White House, AP, Bloomberg, Rhett Wyman.In the United Kingdom, Musk attacked Keir Starmer and sought to upend Nigel Farage and the Reform UK party. Musk and Vance were all in with the AfD anti-immigrant party in Germany, which doubled its vote at the election.The post-World War II era is ending. Trump is in the process of tearing down the global architecture that was erected over the decades to promote and preserve stability, security and peace through the United Nations and NATO and to promote prosperity through free trade. The Atlantic alliance is on the rocks.In Munich, J.D. Vance went after NATO and the EU big time. The threat was not Russia or China, he said, but the “threat from within” America’s strongest allies. Vance labelled EU officials as “commissars” suppressing free speech. Trump lies unhesitatingly while professing sympathy for the dictator in Russia being the victim of a war launched by the president of Ukraine – who Trump says is a dictator.These times feel like the 1930s: raw authoritarian nationalism coupled with protectionism and nativism. It is a truly frightening moment.LoadingThe US election in November was a decisive shift to the right, politically and culturally. Although Trump won with an exceptionally narrow margin, he is fully exploiting his executive power to transform the United States and the world. Will Australia’s political culture similarly shift to the howling winds of Trump’s power?Australia, for all the daily political drama played out in the media, is not in as desiccated a state as the US under Trump. We have critical safeguards. Compulsory voting with preferential ballots curbs an extremist result; the Westminster system prevents a blow-in like Trump from ever becoming prime minister; and we have an Australian Electoral Commission that ensures no election is rigged or stolen. The norms of governance are strong: no one with Trump’s moral, legal or business infirmities would escape removal from parliament.
