And,in truth,pretty bland,despite gaining popularity ratings reaching a stratospheric 91 per cent - higher than any previous Australian politician.
Why,at the last West Australian state election,just two years ago,his Labor Party won 53 out of 59 of the seats in the Legislative Assembly. The Liberals hold two seats. True story.
You’d run out of energy just thinking about that level of political fortune.
All it took,really (apart from the Liberal Party’s recent enthrallment with self-destruction),was to close the state borders to the entire outside world during COVID,thus persuading West Australians that what they already thought about themselves was true. They were the chosen ones,and it was by no more than a rotten accident of history that their promised land was lumped in with a federated nation of Australia.
Meanwhile,McGowan led a people whose principal job was to count their community cash jar.