This is the comeuppance’s comeuppance.

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Donald Trump is a busted flush as of this morning here in Washington DC. You can call it a rebuke. You can call it a rout. You can call it, as one news organisation has, a blunami. But this is a total, utter blowout for the President of the United States and his inner circle.

The scale of this Democratic Party victory is beyond anything Democrats themselves dared to dream, and beyond anything the opinion polls suggested. They have taken control of both the Senate and the House of Representatives, and Donald Trump is now facing two years in which his ability to govern will be dramatically curtailed.

But there is an important distinction between what this result means for the President at home and what it means for his ability to act abroad.

Because while Democrats have won the power to frustrate his domestic agenda, they cannot necessarily stop him from doing what he wants on the international stage. And nowhere is that more significant than in the war in Iran.

Democrats are going to pass all sorts of resolutions insisting that Trump must bring the war to an end. But the President can simply ignore them. He retains the powers of the presidency to pursue his foreign policy, and any legislation that crosses his desk can be vetoed.

The Democrats will not have the two-thirds majority required on Capitol Hill........

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