James Morrow: While Trumpists smile, losers hold cry sessions

America’s left has been in meltdown ever since Trump scored the biggest Republican presidential win in 36 years — all for simply treating Americans like Americans, writes James Morrow.

To say America’s establishment left is not taking Kamala Harris’s loss well would be an understatement.

In fact, you could say they have been in meltdown ever since Donald Trump scored the biggest Republican presidential win in 36 years.

Harvard and other universities cancelled classes while the State Department – charged with dealing with America’s gnarliest enemies – put on a “managing stress” therapy session for distressed staffers.

Once source reportedly described it as a “cry session”.

Among those staffers most upset are said to be those working in the Middle East interest section who had been working hard for months to withhold arms and slap sanctions on Israel and will now find the task all but impossible under Trump.

Former Democrat Speaker of the House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi.

Meanwhile the executive floors of the FBI are said to be in full panic ahead of an anticipated clean-out by Trump, who was the subject of countless witch hunts by the agency’s armed bureaucrats, who tried to stitch him up over the Russia hoax and innumerable other matters.

And in what might be the greatest sop to Harris supporters still hyperventilating over her loss, the vice president’s communications director even suggested Joe Biden step down sometime in the next few weeks to give her a go at being president – if only for a month or two.

The reasons for the freakout are not hard to work out.

While Democrats would of course be upset had they lost to a more standard issue Republican the return of Trump means, if he is successful, an end to Obama era policies of wokeness and weakness.

This weakness was summed up by former CIA analyst Martin Gurri who defined Obama’s overarching foreign policy idea as the notion that pursuing “American interests” was “selfish and primitive”.

In practice it meant that enemies like Iran could be mollified and tut-tutted while also being allowed to raise hell across the Middle East.

Meanwhile the wokeness treated George Orwell’s 1984 as an instruction manual.

It sought to straitjacket everyone’s speech, force conformity (“what do you mean you didn’t post a black tile on Instagram for George Floyd?”) and bludgeon people into accepting, at least publicly, notions like a man having a baby is the most natural thing in the world.

It also sought to permanently entrench Democrat rule not via appealing to a majority of Americans based on their common citizenship but rather by breaking the nation apart and putting it back together again via identity politics.

This is why there has been so much hand-wringing over Latino and African-Americans switching their votes to Donald Trump.

And, too, why there has been such an effort to blame the so-called manosphere and podcasters such as Joe Rogan and Theo Von for radicalising young men – when all they have done is, to use woke terminology, provide a “safe space” for dudes who’ve spent their whole lives hearing that their masculinity is “toxic”.

Some of the meltdowns this has produced have been extraordinary, if not downright unhinged.

Consider Katie Porter, a Californian Democrat congresswoman from Los Angeles and staunch Trump foe.

Here’s how she described an interaction with her 12-year-old daughter on election night.

Porter told her local Fox affiliate that her daughter said: “Trump is going to win. What if I get raped and need to have an abortion?”

She went on: “It’s a reminder how scary this time is for people and how important it is for Democrats to have strategies both at the state level and federal level to make sure we can continue to protect people’s rights.“

Forget the fact that hard left California barely has any abortion restrictions at all.

What sort of hyper-politicised ghoul hears their kid say something like this and, instead of making them feel better, uses it to score points on a TV panel show?

But while Democrats tried to make abortion the number one issue for women (it wasn’t), legendary Democrat strategist James Carville, the brains behind Bill Clinton’s triumphs in the 1990s, said back in March that he knew this identitarian push to win the female vote was going to hurt their chances with men.

“A suspicion of mine is that there are too many preachy females (in the Democrats): ‘Don’t drink beer, don’t watch football, don’t eat hamburgers, this is not good for you,‘” he said.

“The message is too feminine: ‘Everything you’re doing is destroying the planet. You’ve got to eat your peas’.”

At the same time, big swings among ethnic groups including even Muslim voters towards the supposedly divisive Trump suggest that the old Obama era scheme of pitting Americans against each other is nowhere near as successful as simply treating them as Americans.

Revolutionary, hey?