Are some Americans finally waking up to the reality the rest of the world has known for decades? Can they really have had a collective ‘eureka moment’ to realise what is an otherwise universally known fact?

That Donald Trump is actually not a man you would want in control of your country. You wouldn’t want him in control of your toilet. He’d flood it, break it, call it a ‘fake toilet’, then accuse it of never being a toilet in the first place and claim he was a better toilet than that. The last being the only factually true statement.

Because the American mid-term elections, for the Senate and the House of Representatives, have been something of a ‘slap in the face’ for the man with the most slappable face in the world, but I hope the orange doesn’t come off.

America has always loved divisions. Cowboys and Injuns, North and South, Country and Western, Black and White, all of which are, pretty much, ongoing, to add to Democrat and Republican and the latest: ‘last election believers and deniers’. Its become America’s Brexit. Politicians are described as ‘election deniers’ if they agree with Trump in that he actually won the last election. Even though Biden had more votes. That delusional, egomaniacal concept that ‘NO ONE COULD EVER BEAT ME!!!!’ was the start of the Capitol invasion. And its still going on.

So Trump, for these mid-term elections, loaded up the Republican candidates with his cronies, his buddies, his loyals and his ‘deniers’. He bigged em up, he paid for their campaigns, he promoted every pro-gun, anti-abortion, pro-rape, anti-Bealzibub policy he could find and hoisted his people upon the Godliness of its message.

And most of them lost. Ok, the Republicans have still won, once all the results are in, but that’s more a reflection of the incompetence of the current president than to any wonderfulness of his predecessor.

Trump is all about ‘divide and conquer’. Maybe the American people, being much brighter than him, are realising that you need unity, not division, to accomplish good things. Which is why us clever people here in Britain, still describe ministers as ‘was a strong Brexiteer’, 5 years after the vote.

Happy Friday

A xxxx