You'd have to be brave to put your hand up for preselection for Pauline Hanson's One Nation right now.
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Not only do you automatically make yourself the subject of social odium for nailing your colours to such a xenophobic, economically illiterate and populist mast; you also stand a better than 90 per cent chance of being dumped on by your boss.
As of Thursday, Senator Hanson, the self-appointed leader for life of the on-again, off-again, political pop-up she named after herself back in 1997, only had one follower left in the federal sphere; Western Australian Peter Georgiou.
All three of the One Nation Senators elected alongside Hanson at the 2016 federal election have now either been expelled from office or left the party, or both. The same is true of two of their three replacements.
Senator Georgiou, who was not elected in 2016, was elevated to the Senate in 2017 after the expulsion of Rod Culleton who was found to have a criminal conviction in NSW. Senator Culleton had already quit One Nation after a falling out with his boss.
Fraser Anning, who was made a Queensland senator following the expulsion of elected One Nation senator Malcolm Roberts for dual citizenship, resigned to become an independent on the day he was sworn in.
Senator Brian Burston, who Senator Hanson had called upon to resign from the party and the Senate for choosing to honour One Nation's original commitment to back the Coalition's business tax cuts, resigned on Thursday. The New South Welshman made it quite clear he had no intention of handing the seat back to the party.
This is, even given the remarkable impact the section 44 saga had on the Greens, the Coalition and the ALP, a spectacular record of disorganisation, disunity and disarray.
When it comes to keeping the band together the only other micro-party leader who has fared as badly was Clive Palmer.
While Senator Hanson will, no doubt, take solace from Ibsen's line in An Enemy of the People that "the strongest man [woman in this case] in the world is he who stands alone", persuading others to believe this could prove an uphill battle.
Senator Hanson's "it's got to be my way or the highway" stance, coupled with the fact more than 90 per cent of the people who have been elected on her coat tails ended up with excellent reasons to regret their decision to stand, suggests she is the problem.
A key lesson to take away from the experiences of Pauline Hanson's One Nation, the Nick Xenophon Team, the Palmer United Party and even the Jacquie Lambie network, is that cults of personality have never gained traction in Australian politics.
John Howard and Malcolm Fraser, neither of whom could ever be accused of playing the personality card, remain our second and fourth longest serving prime ministers respectively.
Gough Whitlam, Kevin Rudd (two separate terms) and Tony Abbott, all of whom could give Mao a run for his money when it comes to self-promotion, come in at 15th, 16th and 21st respectively.
Unless Senator Hanson heeds this lesson, her next party conference may well be a dinner for one.