WHEN DONALD J Trump was elected President of the United States for a second but not consecutive term in 2024 I was cock-a-hoop. Such joy!

The Americans had thoroughly rejected DEI Harris, and the sunny uplands of steady economic growth, the rejection of woke nonsense and an end to stupid foreign wars lay ahead.

Sure, Trump is unconventional and unpredictable, but you hope for the best.

After the blue tsunami of the midterm elections on Tuesday, that glorious Trump presidential win seems a long time ago.

Conservatives should not underestimate the scale of the loss. Wins for the Democratic Party included Senate seats in Texas, Kansas and South Carolina and the governorship of Texas, all for the first time in decades.

In 2024, Trump carried Texas by 13.7 percentage points, Kansas by 16.1 and South Carolina by 17.9. As of 5 November, Democrats flipped seven Republican-held Senate seats, bringing the Democratic caucus to 54 seats, including two independents.

Abdul El-Sayed, a left-wing Democratic candidate, took the Senate race in Michigan against Mike Rogers. In Maine, Democrats won the Senate seat from Republican incumbent Susan Collins, who had held it for almost 30 years.

Trump put together an amazing coalition to win the presidency in 2024 which included taking the popular vote by 2.3 million votes. Hispanic men broke substantially in his favour, and of course young, white working class men were his base (many called him Daddy) and white women without a college degree strongly supported Trump,........

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