“Never again,” for example, was a legitimate response to the horrors of Nazism, but has recently become the umbrella sentiment for mass unrestricted immigration, which ironically is now recreating the conditions that enabled Nazism in the first place.

“Make America Great Again” has been turned from an appeal for collective security and prosperity to, if you believe mainstream journalists, a religious incantation uttered by Satan himself to his network of armed white sleeper cells.

HATE

They want you to think it really means Make America Hate Again.

The Australian equivalent of these flipped slogans, which is older than both of them, is – clutch your pearls now if you are prone to hysteria – the more-than-a-century-old catchphrase of Australian bigots: “the White Australia Policy”.

It’s been so long since Leftists inverted this once popular and perfectly reasonable idea that they no longer feel the need to elaborate on its meaning.

All they need to do is throw it into a sentence and, hey presto, they become the political equivalent of a cinematic damsel throwing open the curtains of a haunted mansion to let in the dawn sunlight and make vampires recoil in shame and horror.

Greens Senator David Shoebridge was the latest politician to expose the bloodsucking parasites yesterday.

Shoebridge and his type assume, with some justification, that merely labelling any attempt to control immigration – even minimally, as new Liberal Leader Angus Taylor has proposed – as a “2026 version of the WAP” is all that’s necessary to win the argument.

And he’d be right if the nation consisted solely of self-loathing ABC viewers and sanctimonious readers of Nine Newspapers.

But the people outside those two shrinking demographics have two reasons to be sceptical.

One, they were never asked if they wanted Australia to become multicultural, so are rightly suspicious about a social policy that has thoroughly transformed the nation against their wishes.

And two, it’s now been more than 40 years since we were told that multiculturalism would be good for us.

The evidence is now well and truly in – so what does it tell us?

Well, you can now be shot and killed for being Jewish at Bondi, for a start.

Hate preachers tell young blokes in Sydney to fight for Islamic barbarians (and against Australian soldiers) in Syria.

Immigrants have descended on welfare scams like seagulls on a packet of chips.

We need an ever-growing suite of “hate-speech” laws to enforce our “proud” cultural harmony.

And, with every election cycle, politicians visit ethnic “community centres” promising millions of dollars not for assimilating but for voting for their Party.

Almost none of this existed before this golden age of multiculturalism.

There isn’t a single measure of social cohesion or general happiness that has shown a positive result from allowing ethnic ghettos to fragment our towns and cities.

One of the more embarrassing aspects of Australian security, back when we took the issue seriously, was the air hostesses who were required to walk down the aisle of any incoming passenger jet and spray everyone with some vaguely toxic-smelling pesticide.

It was assumed that any person who had stepped outside our pristine nation was now a potential spreader of exotic diseases that would poison our hard-won isolated prosperity.

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It’s a sign of the changing times that the ritual spraying no longer happens. And planes these days are mostly no longer full of Australians returning from holidays but incoming migrants on “student” visas.

Their educational intentions, if they have any, are directed towards learning how to become Uber Eats riders and, in extreme cases, studying the limits of penalties for sexual offences against our local women.

One Indian gentleman was recently so eager to begin his spree of sexual attacks in Australia that he couldn’t even wait for the plane to land at Perth International before he allegedly took certain liberties with the female passenger next to him.

A sensible immigration policy would deliberately discriminate against certain ethnicities in order to minimise the likelihood of these crimes being committed, and other socially destructive anti-Western sentiments being propagated.

By engineering a populace that shares values and is disinclined to commit crimes, you create a high-trust society in which safety and security are achieved with little effort.

It’s not rocket science, as they say. It’s so obvious, that even the unsophisticated, uneducated plebs living in unrenovated wooden huts in the early days of the Australian settlement could work it out.

What they created formed the foundation of what later became one of the freest and most prosperous nations in history.

That was all the “White Australia Policy”, a term first coined in the late 19th century, was ever intended to do.