Conservative nostalgia for the nineties is so hot right now. John Howard is everywhere offering advice, whilst contemporary Liberals yearn for a government just like his.
But Seinfeld is the nineties artefact that actually speaks to the travails of the Abbott-Turnbull-Morrison administrations. That sitcom was, of course, a show about nothing.
A show about nothing.
Malcolm Turnbull held office as Australia's Prime Minister but he never was in power. His valedictory recitation of his achievements makes this abundantly clear. He persuasively made the case for leadership change when he challenged Tony Abbott, only to lose the courage of his convictions soon after snatching the keys to the Lodge.
And nothing so became his Prime Ministership as the manner of its ending. Through the mess and the noise, the amazing thing is that his challengers (those in the Parliament, anyway) didn't see the need to make an argument as to why he should go, in terms of an actual agenda.
Similarly, he didn't spend much time and energy telling Australians why he should have stayed.
On one level, this is easy to explain: before last week he'd ceded so much ground to his internal enemies that they had almost nothing left to ask for.
But it is also so revealing. As PM Malcolm Turnbull never persuaded us - or perhaps even himself - as to what was the point of him being there. After agility and innovation were discarded, purpose was lost.
A show about nothing.
In which there was sound and fury, but all this noise signified precious little.
Government members undermined the former PM not so much because they disagreed with him, but because they couldn't accept his legitimacy.
In place of of contest of ideas about the direction of the government or the country, we've seen the politics of personality and ego.
Where there has been a veneer of policy, it's been drawn from the fringes.
When I think of adding insult to injury, having Craig Kelly as the chief spokesperson for the case against Mr Turnbull's many and varied climate and energy policies, must be a stake through the heart of the member for Wentworth. Imagine being so weak to have been pushed around by Craig Kelly!
While Craig lit up Australia's lounge rooms with his thoughts on coal, where was the debate about the wider policy settings of the government from those seeking to change the leader? Apart from thought bubbles on immigration, the closest to critique we saw really came down to issues management: fixing the relationship with Catholic schools over funding (solution: change the Minister!); selling the company tax plan; and so on.
Which brings to me Scott Morrison, now Australia's 30th Prime Minister. He outplayed Peter Dutton is the reality TV contest for the leadership but has emerged with all of Mr Turnbull attributes, bar his popularity.
Turnbull's Treasurer had no answer to that fundamental question, of what was the point of the Turnbull government. And there seems scant likelihood of him answering this anytime soon.
The best he seems to be able to muster comes down to more problem-solving. But not those problems confronting Australia and Australians - rather, those of his own making.
And once he's finishing scraping away all those barnacles, well, there isn't going to be much of a ship left. So, what's the point of Scott Morrison the Prime Minister?
In stepping away from the company tax cuts for big business, the Liberals aren't conceding that trickle-down economics isn't working, they are admitting tactical defeat whilst failing to put forward any alternative proposition to that one-point plan for the Australian economy.
There are plenty they could choose from. Starting with reallocating the $17 billion which was to have been gifted to the banks to where it always should have been spent: on our schools, investing in Australia's future.
Mr Morrison would do well to heed the real lesson of his predecessor's time in office. Which is that holding public office is just that, public. It's about being responsible for and to 25 million Australians, not just 84 fellow MPs and some media frenemies.
This destructive narcissism has to stop. For the good of the nation.
Trust in politics and political institutions was at an all-time low before the events of last week. I don't think we can assume those events have led to any improvement.
Labor has spent five years learning the painful lessons of our own difficulties when in government. We've also spent five years setting out our vision for Australia, and outlining those policies which we believe might realise it.
We relish a contest of ideas - and I think Australians do, too.
So, Mr Morrison, how about you telling us about the sort of country you like us to be, and how you can take us there?
Tell us what is the point of you being our Prime Minister, tell us why you deserve to be re-elected to that office.
Step away from the politics of shouted insult and calculated undermining. Show the courage of your convictions, and join us in the national conversation that Australians are entitled to - a passionate, but considered and respectful debate about the right choices to secure our future.
Our politics is so important, and the choices before us urgent - it can't continue to be a show about polling. You might remember how Seinfeld ended. Not in a train wreck, but a plane crash.