Grattan on Friday: the zeitgeist doesn’t suit Angus Taylor but he could do more to help himself

As he surveys the degraded and demoralised Liberal Party he presides over, Angus Taylor has two major problems – and that’s leaving aside One Nation. The first is that his own performance is often cack-handed. The second is he is not, as the saying goes, meeting the voters where they are. He should – in theory – be able to tackle the former. The latter is more fundamental. It always surprises how often Taylor comes out with the wrong line, or is caught out without an answer to an obvious…