Blaming JT for te Pati Māori implosion

The te Pati Māori self mutilation isn’t just a train wreck, it’s a train crashing into a school bus that explodes into a Pet store for sad kittens.

In all the anger and fury what has most surprised me is how much JT has been blamed for it all.

I appreciate JT has made many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many,  many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, enemies but I’m not sure what he was supposed to do here.

He discovered an attempted coup and responded with napalm.

He was so angry that after all the hard work to get te Pati Māori into a position where it could have actual influence in the next Government that a schism inside the party wanted to challenge Debbie and Rawiri for the leadership.

Debbie and Rawiri deserved loyalty, not plotting.

Te Pati Māori have been plagued by the same forces we saw inside the Greens when. faction there believed that the leadership weren’t ‘woke enough’.

Inside the Maori Party this has been expressed by a mentality that Debbie and Rawiri weren’t ‘Tikanga enough’.

JT responded to this leadership challenge with fury, that some find his response the greater sin than the attempted coup is genuinely surprising.

Some demand he steps down, which I think would be the worst possible outcome because without his discipline and tactical capacity, te Pati Māori would simply disintegrate.

Regardless of what Māori-dom decide, Te Pati Māori must get their shit together or we will find ensuring this terrible Government is a one term wonder very difficult.

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