What exquisite weeping and gnashing of teeth there has been since horrified liberal elites on both sides of the Atlantic realized that they had been denied the opportunity to chant the long-dreamed-of phrase “madam president” – and understood instead that rush back to the bright orange reality of Trump’s America.

After it became clear the 45th President would also – by a landslide – become the 47th, Britain’s most woke and slyest radio presenter, James LBC’s O’Brien, spoke for many of his befuddled, factually ignorant pundits, lovers and failed politicians. he cried, “How the hell is this fresh?!”

No, James, it’s not hell: it’s the real world, where over 72 million voters made a rational, democratic choice to reject the Democrats’ toxic identity politics and give Trump another chance to address the issues which worsened under Joe Biden, from the table. illegal immigration to Iran-backed Islamist terror.

Donald Trump became America’s 47th president after defeating Kamala Harris in the US election

Regardless of the niggling concerns any of us may have about Trump’s personal qualities, we can be certain that America made the right choice simply from the epic scale of the wake-up call his re-election has caused.

Yesterday Guardian editor Kath Viner sent a frankly disorienting email to her staff claiming that “a Trump win could reverberate for a million years” and even offering “free access to free support services ” and “virtual wellness tools” for her. traumatized workforce.

However, perhaps no one has matched Newsnight star turned one-off royal interviewer-turned-podcaster Emily Maitlis for losing the Trumpian plot.

Emily, of course, had to be axed from her own Channel 4 show by fellow host Krishnan Guru-Murthy in the early hours of Wednesday morning after suggesting that Trump had been “bash*t” live.

However, she had already staged her own exhibition of bath*ttery, shouting, “You lie! to Trump’s former White House spokesman, Sean Spicer, and obnoxiously haranguing Boris Johnson in her martini bottle earrings.

Maitlis spent much of yesterday “trending” on Twitter for all the wrong reasons, but this great champion of democracy and the little people never stooped to directly address her thousands of critics — instead, posted a single item from the diminished ones,

Independent left-wing and now online-only “newspaper” which claimed: “US election results viewers praise Emily Maitlis for gutting Boris Johnson”. Hard.

As the news from America gradually sunk in and liberal grief turned from denial to depression, Craig Oliver – a former BBC News editor and David Cameron’s communications chief who led the 2016 Remain campaign – exclaimed that “there are people crying” on the London Underground.

Get it man! The capital’s hardened commuters are rarely moved to tears by the abysmal state of the network, with its stabbings, sexual assaults and graffiti – yet Oliver would have us believe they’ve been left crying over the ‘wrong’ result of an election thousands of miles away distance. . (No wonder, perhaps, when the city’s Labor mayor Sadiq Khan, who also called the president-elect a “fascist”, claimed this week that Londoners would be “anxious” and “fearful” as a result of Trump’s win .)

The shock was equally palpable for former doctor Alastair Campbell and former Tory damp Rory Stewart – who hinted he voted Labor at the last election. These days they host centrist dads’ favorite Gary Lineker-owned podcast, The Rest Is Politics.

Before the election, Old Etonian Stewart was busy telling anyone who would listen that Harris would “win comfortably”, boasting that he had “bet the maximum I was allowed to bet” on her victory and had placed 100,000 pounds if the bookies did. he accepted it.

However, money could not buy the priceless look on his and Campbell’s frozen faces as it became clear that they had lost their bet – and with it their reputations for political acumen.

Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris

Has Rory Stewart shown an ounce of humility? Not especially. “I guess I was wrong because I’m an optimist,” was his egotistical statement after being so completely and utterly wrong. “And I hate the idea of ​​being pessimistically right.”

But don’t worry: the best club we know will soon find someone else to come for their latest humiliation. How soon before the claims that “Russian bots” corrupted the vote start?

Maths-boffin-turned-left-foghorn Carol Vorderman had been as sure that Harris was headed for the White House and Trump was headed for jail, insisting that “MILLIONS” of women were turning out to vote to ensure Harris won.

When it turned out that “millions” of those women actually voted for the despicable Donald, a deflated Vorderman could only cry about “right-wing hate.”

The response from liberal America’s army of overpaid commentators was equally humiliating.

Late Show host and would-be comedian Stephen Colbert was another who did a Maitlis, telling his audience: “Well, shit. It happened… again. After a bizarre and vicious campaign fueled by a desperate need to stay out of jail, Donald Trump won. This stupid abomination was met with pantomime boos from his tame audience.

Many on the left have spread hysteria about “far-right hate” in Trump’s campaign. However, the only real hate I’ve seen since he won has been the obvious distaste the woke elites have shown for ordinary voters.

For these pampered fools, cut off from the lives of ordinary people, it could not be that the Left simply lost the argument to Trump in an open democratic debate.

No, Joe Public’s stupidity and prejudice must be to blame.

So Stephen Colbert pointedly told his audience, “All day yesterday, I walked around proudly wearing my ‘I Voted’ sticker.” Today, I wore my “I question my fundamental belief in the goodness of humanity” sticker.

Here, a left-leaning journalist using the pseudonym Otto English tweeted what many of his cohort believed — that the election proved “millions of Americans are misogynistic, climate-change-denying, racist lunatics.” People so insufferably conceited act as if ordinary voters are some kind of grotesque alien species – instead of being men and women like them, sharing many of the same concerns they do.

The obvious fact is that these pundits and poseurs live and work in a tiny, metropolitan echo chamber, all talking the same points of view to each other until they think everyone else has them too. They did Brexit, they did Trump the first time and they did it again.

Stewart and Campbell even fill movie theaters for “live” versions of their sleazy podcast, where their conformist views are applauded by followers who pay for the dubious privilege. Outside of the theater, however, their comfortable opinions are completely irrelevant to most people’s lives.

The anguished screams of the US and UK liberal elites are the sound of the planet Woke colliding with a Trump-shaped asteroid. And whether they like it or not, their worldview is—at least for the next four years—as dead as the dinosaurs.

Mick Hume is the author of Trigger Warning: Is The Fear Of Being Offensive Killing Free Speech?