Don’t be fooled, the defeat of Trump doesn’t mean the end of Maga

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Vice-President JD Vance is certainly correct in saying this is the overriding explanation for Republican defeat, but it is too late to do much about it. Conceivably, Trump might…

The US and Israel attacked Iran on 28 February confident they could achieve regime change. By an extraordinary irony, eight months later the greatest regime-change taking place as a result of the war is in Washington, not Tehran.

Donald Trump’s administration is not sinking with all hands, but it is visibly holed below the waterline, its chief member demoralised and fights breaking out over who to blame for its electoral calamity.

To a degree, all governments depend for their authority on bluffing and frightening everybody into believing that they are all-powerful and able to ignore puny efforts to resist them. Nothing exposes this masquerade as swiftly and humiliatingly as an unsuccessful war waged against a smaller and weaker opponent.

History is full of supposed turning points when the political world turns out not to have turned quite as much as observers had expected.

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