Arrogance and stupidity from whining Lefties like Bradby, Maitlis and Stewart on Trump show their delusion - Kwasi Kwarteng

However much they liked his agenda, they loathed the left far more. He was essentially a very handy rolling pin with which to bash the collective smugness of the liberal elite.

Their reactions have been beyond parody, beyond anything we could ever have believed these snowflakes to be capable of. The wailing, the crying and bouts of maudlin self-pity were thoroughly to be expected. Yet some of these reactions go way beyond the usual pouting and posturing of adolescent pique.

First of all, there is the anger, mixed in with arrogance. Cara Delevingne, the fashionable “model/actress/whatever” decried Trump’s victory, while openly pushing hate. Trump’s victory, she says, is “gutting yes, but freeing too. We get to make every day over the next four years hell for fascists, misogynists, bigots and liars”.

On the low rent chat US shows, the comedian Jimmy Kimmel wailed like a cry-baby. “It was a terrible night for women, for children, for hundreds of thousands of hard-working immigrants…”. I mean, come on.

Tens of millions of women voted for Trump, but Kimmel knows better. Unbelievably, he choked back the tears with the ultimate line in condescension. “Guess what? It was a bad night for everyone who voted for him too- you just don’t realise it yet”.

Luckily, you didn’t have to go to the States or follow their commentators to listen to this type of self-regarding idiocy. In Britain, the likes of Emily Maitlis, Tom Bradby and Rory Stewart could not hide their arrogant indignation.

Neither could they hide their stupidity. Maitlis swore on TV. Bradby claimed that “Brits cannot believe that the world’s most important democracy “had elected “a fascist”. Speak for yourself. Tom.

Stewart, having arrogantly asserted that Kamala would win big, simply revealed his stark ignorance about US politics. It was an excruciating moment for a man I regard as a friend, but who, nonetheless, speaks with messianic authority about absolutely everything, regardless of his actual knowledge of the subject.

Worse than these wholly biased commentators are the whining lefties who believe that Trump’s victory marks the end of the world. Take the left-wing bible, the Guardian, as an example. Its editor, a perfectly amiable left-wing journo in her 50s went full Mary Poppins in an email to her staff. “I know the result has been very upsetting for many colleagues”.

She continued, if “you want to talk about it, your manager and members of the leadership team are all available as is the People team”. She has also kindly offered her staff members, upset by the Donald’s emphatic return to the White House, access to free mental health support. This is real. It’s embarrassing.

It’s absurd. It also shows how these people lost the election. They and their leader Kamala Harris were not only totally deluded, they were also completely cut off, out of touch with millions of their fellow citizens.

Despite his profanities and crude behaviour, Trump appealed to a mainstream of all colours and creeds who are simply fed up with being called Nazis, far right or fascist. They are tired of wokery and virtue signaling.

They were crushed by inflation and the cost of living. They were appalled by the open border policy of Harris and the Democratic Party, who let in millions of illegal immigrants, many of whom were violent, under their watch. Last Tuesday, they simply got a chance to express, in no uncertain terms, their outrage: Trump is back!