by Frances Martel, Breitbart:
Authoritarian socialist Jacinda Ardern announced on Thursday she would step down from the prime ministership of New Zealand next month — a position she acquired in a controversial election and used to make the country crueler, less safe, and less free.
Ardern has served as prime minister of the country since 2017, a term set to end on February 7. She will remain a member of the New Zealand parliament through at least April. Parliamentary elections will be held on October 14, presumably marking a formal end to her political career, unless she changes her mind about running for re-election.
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In her departing remarks, Ardern depicted herself as a victim of burnout, stating, “I just don’t have enough in the tank for another four years.” She noted she wanted time to “finally” marry her fiancé and spend more time with family, giving the impression that her collapsing approval rating and her Labour Party’s growing unpopularity did not play a role in the decision, one final dishonest message to the public.
The authoritarian left went into overdrive celebrating Ardern even in quitting on Thursday, praising her alleged “humility,” “strength,” (she just quit her job because it was too hard), and “grace.” The Associated Press cited her “health-driven” coronavirus response — which featured KFC smuggler arrests, orgy jokes, and an admission that she wanted to make New Zealanders who disagreed with her second-class citizens — as a highlight of her tenure and praised her as an “inspiration to women.”
Members of the public take part in a protest organized by the Freedom and Rights Coalition in Christchurch, New Zealand, on February 19, 2022, demanding an end to Chinese coronavirus restrictions and mandatory vaccination. (Sanka Vidanagama/NurPhoto via Getty Images)
In reality, Ardern leaves her job as a blight on the face of the free world, a community which New Zealand seemed barely to belong to after nearly six years of Ardern’s iron-fisted rule.
Many Americans likely first became aware of Ardern during the 2020 presidential campaign, when, seemingly out of nowhere, multiple Democrat candidates celebrated the radical socialist as a role model. Current Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg proclaimed in 2019 that Ardern’s leadership was “masterful.” Outsider candidate Marianne Williamson promised that Ardern would be the first world leader she would call if elected.
“Girl, you are so on,” Williamson gushed.
At the time, the Chinese coronavirus pandemic had not yet come to define Ardern’s tenure, and she had yet to break the law by banning New Zealanders from their own country. Ardern earned the left’s praise by making gun confiscation and “climate change” her priorities, outlawing a wide variety of firearms in 2019 following the Christchurch mosque shootings.
“This is just the beginning of the work we need to do,” Ardern said in March 2019 following the shooting, announcing a ban on semiautomatic weapons. Ardern followed the ban with an aggressive “buyback” scheme to convince New Zealanders to give up the weapons for cash that began the Democrat Party’s love affair with her administration.
“Under [Ardern’s] leadership, New Zealand has banned assault rifles and military-style semi-automatic weapons just six days after the Christchurch mosque attacks,” two-time failed presidential candidate Hillary Clinton praised that year. “Public servants didn’t stop at offering thoughts and prayers. They chose to act.”
