The Senate Republican leader warns his colleagues that the President’s refusal to accept the election result threatens democracy itself.
The agreement involves revising an international border – opposed in this case by the EU and the UK. It will have knock-on effects elsewhere.
Intriguingly, he has retweeted an article which said: ‘May God bless him, Melania, and their family, as God leads him to the next chapter in his life.’
The new administration will want to look and feel different but, on this issue, it should resist being lured into “compromise”.
The President-elect’s closest circle of advisers seem to be selected on the basis of trust and experience.
America’s result is having knock-on effects in Downing Street: see yesterday’s green speech and today’s defence news.
There are all sorts of explanations about why people voted the “wrong” way. But the simplest may be the appeal of conservative values.
Stateside narratives have a tendency to be imported into UK politics – one of the knock-on effects of this messy Presidential election outcome.
If they can’t make a real impact on the lives of working class voters in provincial seats, Johnson will meet the same electoral fate as Trump.
In his speech, he quoted from the Bible, in its best and most traditional version: yet more evidence of his own conservatism.
Perhaps he will contest the 2024 presidential contest at the age of nearly 82. But expectation that he may not will surely undermine his authority.
It’s very early to draw conclusions from America’s elections – though the President’s challenge to the results has been coming for some time.
The fact, however, that he has won five million more votes than he did in 2016 does tell us that we cannot write him off as an aberration.
Recent elections show that the party can thrive in the emerging, more diverse America. But not if it can’t shake off this toxic President.