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UPDATE: Video blogger Lauren Southern tracks anti-Trump rioters in Washington. Remarkable footage.
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As of a few hours ago, Donald J. Trump is the installed president of the United States. This has not gone down well with the Clintons, judging by the pained expressions (above) they wore to the shindig on Washington’s Mall, nor with antipodean variants of those Americans who poo-hooed the possibility he might actually be elected and have frothed without restraint ever since November 8.
The SMH‘s North American re-write artist in chief, Paul McGeough, was so stunned by that victory he has not tweeted since the shocking results were tallied, leaving in place his confident wrongology of election eve that Mrs Clinton would end the “nightmare” of her opponent’s candidacy. 
That was the authorised version before reality intervened and, rather like those Japanese soldiers who skulked in jungle thickets while refusing to accept their war was over, the New Establishment’s loyalists persist in their insistence that the tattered rags of their shattered expectations remain a uniform of great potency and pride. Thus does McGeough in his latest epistle deliver a further long-winded lesson in how to reject reality. It was all Russian mischief … and the FBI … and the overall stupidity of voters, don’t you know. When editors are childlike incompetents and your newspaper’s few remaining readers wish only to be reassured of that which they already believe, a foreign correspondent can get away with thoughts shallow as the ink of his byline.
Misery loves company, as they say, and McGeough’s dismay united him with those of like mind. Sydney readers might be aware that Wendy Harmer comperes a local ABC radio show, a gig that appeared, as if by magic, soon after her Hoopla web venture went under. Luckily the national broadcaster came along with its chequebook just when Ms Harmer needed it most. Certainly, her appraisal of the Inauguration address would not have cost her any friends at Ultimo or Southbank.
No disagreement from Anne Summer’s boyfriend, Chip Rolley, either — another of those lucky souls who, upon finding himself out of a job with the the Sydney Writers’ Festival, marched into the editorship of The Drum.
Perhaps fortified by her swain’s delivery of a fortifying Bonox, Ms Summers found the strength to demand that a sexual predator’s apologist reject the democratic will.
Unlike Julia Gillard, the professional feminist’s idol, Ms Summers is not known to have donated to the Clinton Foundation, so her tweet must be seen as no more than an expression of sympathy. Had she been in a position to garnish that summons to the barricades with a $292 million contribution from Australia’s taxpayers to the Clinton Foundation it would have been a job application.
It is not nice to take pleasure in another’s pain, but exceptions can be made when those whining the loudest are represented by the likes of climate-change charlatan Michael Mann …
… and ABC-favoured eco-loon Bill McKibben
To be be fair, there is good reason to wonder about Trump — from the new president’s temperament to his populist advocacy of protectionism. But if annoying to distraction all the right people is any indication, he is off to a very good start indeed.
Donald Trump took out America’s two most powerful political dynasties of the last 30 years: the Bushes and the Clintons. If you didn’t see that coming, there’s no reason anyone should pay any heed to anything you say about Trump from now on.
Steyn’s thoughts can be read in full via the link below.
— roger franklin
