Christopher Luxon’ is far from NZ’s biggest political problem. However his indeterminate public performance as Prime Minister has resulted in considerable discontent among the conservative sector of the NZ political spectrum.

Of course the real threat to our country’s future lies in the Labour/ Greens sector. However as the current flag carrier for the center right, Mr Luxon seems to lack something, and I will try to identify exactly what it is in this article.

Its not all criticism for National. They’ve done a few things they deserve credit for and that is fine. The issue that troubles many National supporters is Mr Luxon’s public persona and his failure to mount any kind of defence or fightback position against the legacy media. Who are basically the foot soldiers of the progressive left.

I think this failure to fight back is because Mr Luxon (like John Key) does not have an ideology to fall back on. Some may say this is not such a bad thing, but I think they are wrong.

Over the last few decades, New Zealand has been pushed so far to the left by the purveyors of neo-Marxist/ progressive ideology that someone with no understanding of this reality is no help to us right now. We need someone who understands this and can push back with an alternative set of ideas.

Preferably those ideas should be based around the ethos of western civilisation that has done us so well up until recently. Broadly, that is respect for private property, the law, freedom of expression, the rights of individuals not to be subjugated to the collective, and the conservation of what is good in society.

Unfortunately Mr Luxon seems to lack this requirement and it shows. His real problem is he is not that smart. Sure, he climbed the ladder of success in the corporate world to some degree. However it is quite possible to do this not by being smart but with a combination of a good work ethic and a corporate attitude tailored to deliver promotion.

Mr Luxon is a hard worker, and he knows what is needed to make a mark in the corporate jungle, but he’s not really bright enough for politics. Or to drag NZ out of the ideological chasm it has fallen into.

How many times do those of us who follow politics watch him enduring some taunting interview with one of the half baked charlatans who make up the legacy media, and just wish he would say what is obvious to us?

We mentally implore him to speak the words he should. He doesn’t. He just drones on with some silly bloviating nonsense or some muddy deflection that makes him look like a dunce.

That is because he is (in political terms) a dunce. He is doing his best, but his best is pitifully inadequate. If you yearn for the eccentric brilliance of someone like Javier Milei or the unapologetic competence of Nayeb Bukele you’re out of luck. The stolid unimaginative Mr Luxon will never deliver anything like this.

National is basically the political wing of Air New Zealand and will remain so for some time. We’re stuck with corporate CEO Mr Luxon and his nondescript underperforming party. For as long as the alternative is so much worse and nothing better comes along.

All we can hope for is someone of the requisite brilliance and tenacity to arise in the coalition partners, either ACT or NZ First. With the latter being (IMHO) the most likely source of such a political saviour.

Don’t give up yet. Just look at the current coalition and Mr Luxon as the first halting step out of the swamp. It is always darkest before the dawn.