Below is the state of play on both sides of the pond, and it is indeed scary mon ami. Even the Donald, rich and powerful as he is, is being stitched up like a kipper.

"Beginning with the financial crisis of 2008, and accelerating after the collapse of the Occupy Wall Street movement in 2011, the political order of the United States and the entire West entered a period of serious transition. A gradual evolution in the forms and orders of power – underway already for many generations – suddenly accelerated, as the ruling classes took a series of drastic self-conscious steps to consolidate their own ranks and attenuate the political voice of the rabble. Major corporations, academia, the press, and the political establishment set aside their few remaining differences and worked to establish a new impenetrable system of rule. Many former oppositional leftists joined them in this project, after agreeing to exchange their economic critiques for a new programme of identity advocacy. Woke capital, the rise of critical race theory, radical climate policies, escalating mass immigration, and the ascendancy of the rainbow brigade are the dubious fruits of the new regime. Because they arise from the near-total assimilation of the left with the ruling class, anyone who objects to any element of this novel and quite bizarre political programme is now a right-wing extremist."