IT’S a sin to gloat, I know.
But Donald Trump’s stupendous victory over Kamala Harris, flag-bearer of the unbearably woke global elite, brought joy to millions, me included.
Donald Trump’s stupendous victory over Kamala Harris brought joy to millions[/caption]
Sadiq Khan condemned Elon Musk’s decision to lift a Twitter ban on Trump[/caption]
Emily Maitlis had a foul-mouthed rant as America’s silent majority took revenge[/caption]
Who could not relish the slapped-bottom face of podcaster Alastair Campbell when Pennsylvania jumped for Trump?[/caption]
Campbell’s fellow-traveller Rory Stewart[/caption]
Who could not relish the slapped-bottom faces of podcaster Alastair Campbell and fellow-traveller Rory Stewart when Pennsylvania jumped for Trump?
Or Emily Maitlis’s foul-mouthed rant as America’s silent majority took revenge for mass immigration, malignant identity politics and the bend-the-knee tyranny of Black Lives Matter?
Weepy Guardian hacks proved satire is not dead as they reached for the psychiatric smelling salts at Trump’s second coming.
“We will make America strong again,” roared the President-elect.
“We will make America proud again.
“We will make America safe again.
“And we will make America great again.”
Imagine how that went down with Trump-hating Keir Starmer, whose job now is to deal with the man denounced by Foreign Secretary David Lammy as a “neo-Nazi tyrant in a toupee”.
Lammy’s crass abuse sums up Labour’s sullen response to the most sensational political convulsion in recent times.
It will be neither forgotten nor forgiven.
To be fair, Britain’s new socialist rulers are not alone in their despair.
Jaws dropped all over Europe as peacenik EU leaders face having to cough up trillions for their own defence.
Wednesday’s message from across the Pond is revolutionary.
Barring a successful assassin’s bullet, Trump will redraw the map of global politics over the next four years.
November 5 was Bonfire Night for right-thinking, wrong-headed lefties who put the torch to free speech and surrendered democracy to a reckless minority of eco-loons and gender warriors.
Total command
A stunning transfer of power has gifted the 45th and 47th President with total command of the White House, the Senate and the House of Representatives — what bookies call a near-miraculous trifecta.
He has won absolute control over the economy, immigration, foreign policy, trade — and everything.
And as Commander-in-Chief he holds the reins of the world’s most formidable military forces.
The reverberations from this earthquake have yet to play out.
But they will be game-changing for us all, a beacon of hope for some and the end of times for others.
On the world stage, Beijing’s huge but fragile economy risks grinding to a halt in the face of new US trade barriers, raising fears of internal dissent from an already growing jobless army.
But at least China’s dictator Xi Jinping will now think twice before invading Taiwan.
Iran’s terrorist mullahs should be shaking in their shoes as fresh trade sanctions choke the economy and stifle their nuclear arms race, stoking threats of a popular uprising against their iron-fist rule
Iran’s terrorist mullahs should be shaking in their shoes as fresh trade sanctions choke the economy and stifle their nuclear arms race, stoking threats of a popular uprising against their iron-fist rule.
And Vladimir Putin will be forced to stop his blood-soaked war on Ukraine and negotiate a face-saving peace which preserves at least some of Kiev’s territorial integrity.
Shroud-waving mobs who brand President-elect Trump a threat to world safety are talking through their hats.
The Apprentice star’s first term showed he is a deal-maker, not a warmonger.
It is a tribute to his unpredictable negotiating style that no new wars began during his first term.
And it is an indictment of Joe Biden’s feeble foreign policy that conflicts erupted all over the world, especially in Ukraine and Israel, during his administration.
It was Biden too — while still at least partially compos mentis — who signed off America’s humiliating race to leave Afghanistan to the mercy of a vengeful Taliban.
Donald Trump detests wasting blood and treasure on pointless conflict — unless he must.
Which explains why many Democrat-voting Jews this week switched sides, certain that the new White House incumbent has Israel’s best interests at heart.
As President he negotiated a quite astonishing peace deal, the Abraham Accords, under which Saudi Arabia, Jordan and the United Arab Emirates recognised Israel for the first time as a sovereign state.
That will be back on the table and Israeli warrior PM Benjamin Netanyahu will be under pressure to do a deal which acknowledges the Palestinians.
The world is watching and waiting for Trump’s inauguration in January. But the effects are already being felt closer to home.
The fragmenting EU has been caught flat-footed by a political eruption they didn’t foresee and don’t know how to handle.
Bickering leaders are eye-deep in debt, trapped by half a century of meddling incompetence and paralysed by human rights laws dictated by unaccountable judges
Across the Continent governments are on the run from voters who have lost patience with an ideological pursuit of grand schemes which don’t work.
Bickering leaders are eye-deep in debt, trapped by half a century of meddling incompetence and paralysed by human rights laws dictated by unaccountable judges.
France and Germany, the impoverished dynamos of ever-closer union, are under siege from mass immigration and the Islamisation of Europe by stealth.
In short, the EU fails on almost every count on Donald Trump’s checklist.
Nobody is in control, not even Commission chief Ursula von der Leyen.
Europe’s over-taxed, over-regulated economy is in terminal decline. EU leaders will not dish out the dosh Nato needs to defend member states — including Poland and the Balkans, who live in fear of Russian aggression.
Unless it reforms, which is politically impossible, Trump will leave the EU to its bleak fate.
So what does his re-election mean for us?
There are some chinks of light in the so-called Special Relationship.
Donald Trump has an affection for the country of his Gaelic-speaking mother’s birth on the Scottish island of Lewis.
He owns golf courses including iconic Turnberry.
He adored the late Queen Elizabeth and admires the Royal Family.
But politics is politics.
There is no love lost between the free-booting President-elect and rigid socialist Keir Starmer.
Rich pickings
The PM and blabber-mouth Foreign Secretary David Lammy may have shared a friendly dinner at Trump Tower before the election.
But only a fool would assume that means an easy ride.
The Donald famously neither forgives nor forgets.
He knows exactly what Starmer and his hostile Labour government think of him.
It’s all on record.
And it’s very personal.
Worse, Labour lefties are already at war with Elon Musk, the world’s richest man and — with Vice-President-elect JD Vance — the new administration’s most influential figure.
It was Musk, the genius behind Tesla and SpaceX, who branded Starmer “Two-Tier Keir” after his crackdown on “right-wing extremists” who clashed with pro-Palestinian protesters and compared Labour Britain with Communist Russia.
The free speech crusader is also at war with London Mayor Sadiq Khan, who condemned his decision to lift a Twitter ban on Donald Trump.
Starmer, already floundering after a botched first 100 days in office and a disastrous Budget, desperately needs a functioning relationship with the new regime.
Above all, he must revive a multi-billion-pound US trade deal which was put on ice under pro-Brussels President Biden.
That’s a hard sell for a party of Trump haters.
But it offers rich pickings to pro-Republican Tories under Kemi Badenoch’s leadership.
Against all expectations, the Tories are leading Labour in the polls.
If there is a lesson to be learned this week, it is that there is no appetite here for those centrist plotters still pining for defeated James Cleverly or Tom Tugendhat.
If anything, the risk is that the Tories will be outflanked on the right by the man Donald Trump singled out for special praise at his final rally in Pennsylvania — Reform leader Nigel Farage.
As for picking winners, Farage resembles an original Bitcoin punter.
Labour is already a lame-duck regime, hobbled by class war ideology and a woke obsession with race, gender and climate panic
He was alongside Trump before and during his first term.
They are best mates.
And in Trump Tower, loyalty is prized beyond riches.
The new President will not turn to Keir Starmer for views about Britain.
He will listen to his ultra-sceptic Brexit buddy.
And he will do everything possible to repay his loyalty.
The race is now on for Kemi Badenoch to refashion the Conservative Party as an election winner.
The next poll may be five years off.
But time is short.
The Tories must set out their stall on such key issues as immigration, tax and public sector debt — otherwise known as delivering Brexit.
Labour is already a lame-duck regime, hobbled by class war ideology and a woke obsession with race, gender and climate panic.
But unless Kemi moves swiftly to offer voters a clear and distinct choice, the silent majority which swept Trump to power will drift ever more to Farage’s Reform.
And Two-Tier Keir will slink through the gap to win an even more catastrophic second term.
