This is a sentence I’d never thought I would ever write: common sense and truth have prevailed in America.

The UK needs to follow the example of de Gaulle, give up the fantasy of a ‘special relationship’ and recognise that we are a separate nation with separate interests.

Already censored on numerous social media sites, his old posts scrubbed away from public viewing, the liberal establishment in control of the institutions and wider culture is trying to scribble him out of the pages of history.

At this point the US is too far gone to help and a civil war seems inevitable, the very survival of the Founding Fathers’ great experiment is now in jeopardy.

Still traumatised by Clinton’s shock defeat, Democrats are terrified of complacency. Indeed, they are currently just as likely to distrust the polls as the president’s own supporters.