Terms Without Limits

All the bad people are happy, but all the worse people are not. Donald Trump was supposed to have been the end of the world last time. If those who were losing their minds today meant what they were saying, then they would take to the streets, or even take up arms. They have until 20 January. If they believed that Trump's second inauguration might realistically preclude any future election, then they would not give a damn that he had won this one. They would do whatever it took. Public figures who have claimed that Trump would place you at risk of the gulag or the ice pick, you have until 20 January to flee.

Trump has well and truly won, and Kamala Harris has well and truly lost. Even Hillary Clinton won the popular vote. Trump is the first Republican to have managed that in 20 years. There was no county in the entire country where Harris in 2024 outperformed Joe Biden in 2020. In Missouri, where Trump has undoubtedly won, voters approved a progressive increase in the minimum wage to $15 per hour by January 2026, with adjustment thereafter in line with inflation. There were pro-abortion ballot propositions in 10 states, and they have certainly outperformed Harris in nine of them, massively in several cases, with Trump winning at least six states where abortion passed. It also passed in Nevada, where the Presidential result has yet to be declared. Having declined to endorse Harris, Rashida Tlaib was re-elected with 70 per cent of the vote in a district that Harris lost.

The meltdown is glorious. Black men are misogynistic. Latinos are misogynistic and racist. Hispanics and Arabs should be deported. Plus the usual class stuff, but with an even greater intensity. Unable to seek a third term even if he wanted one, Trump may or may not do anything for the people who by voting for him, or by voting for third parties, or by abstaining out of anything but apathy, had put him over the line. But they are everyone whose very existence drives liberals delirious, and not only in one country: young men and black men, Muslims and Christian Arabs, a working class that identifies as such and a Left that was told until Monday that it was irrelevant, but which is now being vilified for its failure to have done its queenmaking duty. The Latin American element is more specific to the United States, but it has obvious parallels elsewhere, including here, where in fact such communities are increasingly apparent. Make Britain Great Again.