Those around him remark on his intelligence and despair of his lack of political deftness.The mismatch between where the public resides and what the Liberals are expounding is a much deeper challenge — a gulf perhaps unable to be bridged, at least in the short term.This came through in Taylor's major economic address last week, which, in addition to its attack on One Nation, critiqued Labor and set out the opposition's alternative in broad terms He should be careful: this is a huge policy area and one the opposition should be leaning into in a very considered way.Taylor is not just looking across the centre-right spectrum at the Liberals' rival, One Nation