RICHARD LITTLEJOHN: Trump's victory is democracy in the raw

They called Transylvania County (yes, really) for Trump shortly before 11pm, local time. That was the moment I knew Kamala Harris was toast. They did the Mash, they did the Monster Mash.

It was a graveyard smash. Trump was back from the dead. Transylvania is one of those 'God and guns' counties in North Carolina which the Democrats hold in contempt.

Ten minutes later, the whole state went Republican. If North Carolina had fallen decisively to the Bad Orange Man, then the other so-called 'battleground' states would surely follow.

It was a rainy night in Georgia, too, but that didn't stop voters turning out in their millions to back Trump, reversing the disputed 2020 result.

This time there was no time for lawyers, let alone losers. There was no room for protracted squabbling about 'margins of error', 'hanging chads' or uncounted postal votes miraculously discovered in a dumpster behind Dunkin' Donuts in Omaha, somewhere in Middle America.

One by one, the dominoes tumbled. All those alleged 'swing states' turned up in the Republican column. It wasn't even close.

You didn't have to sit up all night to conclude that Donald J Trump was about to become the 47th President of the United States – the greatest comeback since Grover Cleveland in 1893.

Meanwhile, the usual Left-wing lunatics, who probably think Grover Cleveland was the lead singer in 1970s Philly Sound soulsters Harold Melvin and The Bluenotes, were beside themselves with grief.

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Flicking the channels, I stumbled across the CNN anchor Jake Tapper, a ferociously pro-Dem 'journalist'. His body language was the giveaway. Reflecting on the Transylvania County result with another Never Trumper from Central Casting, Jake The Peg (diddle-iddle-diddle-ip) was a shrivelled basket-case, a wet puddle on the floor of the studio.

He reminded me of the BBC's David Dimbleby when he had unwillingly to announce that Britain had voted Leave back in 2016. He looked as if someone had just run over his dog.

Make no mistake, this was America's Brexit moment. Ohio was next to fall to Trump, which didn't surprise me in the slightest. My dad opened a factory in Canton, Ohio, in the Seventies. I can remember going to a Fourth of July party for the staff at the plant in 1978.

These are decent, hard-working, God-fearing people, sick and tired of being smeared as racist, white supremacists by the woke grifters running the modern Democratic Party.

Same goes for Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, Michigan and all points West. As I wrote on Saturday, they instinctively recoil from lectures from wealthy, Leftie celebrities on how they should vote.

Bruce Springsteen once sang: 'They blew up the Chicken Man in Philly last night.'

This week Springsteen was the Chicken Man, rallying for Kamala in Philadelphia the night before she sunk with all hands. Just as he crashed and burned when he did the same for Hillary Clinton eight years ago. Much as I love Springsteen's music, he has morphed into America's answer to Del Boy's Uncle Albert.

He obviously doesn't get the Streets of Philadelphia as much as he thinks he does.

Same goes for Oprah Winfrey, who hilariously claimed on Tuesday night that if America elected 'literally Hitler' Trump, they'd never be allowed to vote ever again.

Nurse!

Harris wheeled out a conga-line of slebs to tell the Great Unwashed how to cast their ballots. I'd never heard of most of them, and neither had Middle America.

There was a dopey bird called Cardi B, who read out her unconvincing, scripted endorsement from a mobile phone. Turns out she's a stripper-turned-rapper who boasts about drugging and robbing men. I thought Cardi B was a cashmere bra from Marks & Sparks.

If this is America's Brexit moment, then it's no false dawn, unlike our own. After we voted Leave, the political class – the ghastly, complete and utter lawyer Keir Starmer, in particular – spent four years trying to overturn the will of the people.

Trump's stunning victory in America is a triumph for the people, by the people. On his coat-tails, the Republicans are on course to take control of both houses of Congress.

As of January 20, when he is inaugurated for the second time, there will be no roadblocks to his mission to Make America Great Again.

Yes, the Left will attempt to legislate him into a corner, but they are doomed to fail.

The lawfare which they have waged against Trump is history. Drill, baby, drill, is back at the top of the agenda. So are tax cuts. It's morning in America again, as Ronald Reagan declared all those years ago.

(Incidentally, I watched the Reagan movie at the weekend, starring Dennis Quaid. Check it out. Truly inspiring.)

This isn't the death of democracy, as the Democrats disgracefully claimed during their shameless, scaremongering campaign. This is democracy in the raw.

Trump won across every demographic – black, white, Latinos, even young voters. In Miami/Dade, home to the largest South American diaspora in the US, the Republicans romped home for the first time since 1988.

Black voters turned out in record numbers to support Trump. As I predicted on Saturday, the Obamas' attempt to tell 'bros' they should be ashamed if they didn't vote for Harris backfired spectacularly.

If there is one joyous outcome of this election it is, if not the end, then at least the beginning of the end of the exploitative identity politics which carve up voters into individual grievance and 'oppressor' groups.

Trump not only won the electoral college – the US equivalent of our constituency system – he also won a majority of the popular vote, pulling the plug on the Dems' knee-jerk, fallback position accusing him of being 'illegitimate'.

Up until now, the US electorate has been defined as 'Red' (Republican), 'Blue' (Democrat) and variously black, white and Latino.

After this result, the newly elected senator for Ohio, Bernie Moreno, summed it up perfectly. This wasn't a Red wave, or a Blue wave. It was a Red, White and Blue Wave.

In Florida, immigrants from South America and the Caribbean don't want to be labelled 'Latinos' or, even worse, gender non-specific 'Latinx'. They are Americans, full stop. Or period, as they say in Miami, where they backed Trump in droves. They were, in the words of Peter Finch in the movie Network: 'Mad as Hell' and they weren't going to take it any more.

Significantly, as of yesterday lunchtime, Harris still hadn't had the grace to concede.

Tells you all you need to know about the self-entitled Left at home and abroad.

If he plays his cards right, Trump – the most divisive politician since Adolf Hitler, according to the mainstream media in the US and their gormless sycophants at the BBC and elsewhere in Britain – has a unique opportunity to bring the country together and forge a turbo-charged economy, freed of the Net Zero nonsense.

He will also concentrate the minds of tyrants in the Middle East, Russia and Indo-China. The world has just become a less dangerous place.

So what does this mean for us? The puerile, student union politicians in Starmer's Cabinet and beyond are going to have to get with the programme sharpish. They must dump their pathetic anti-Trump jibes and grow up, starting with London mayor Genghis Khan and his ridiculous 'Trump Baby' balloon.

As of now, the UK is politically isolated from our 'allies' in the US and in Europe, where populist movements are on the march everywhere.

They must acknowledge that Trump has swept the board in a free, fair, democratic election – something Starmer can't claim here, having only won 20 per cent of those eligible to vote.

After this election, I am reassured that whatever the Guardianistas and the far-Left in Britain maintain, America remains the world's last best hope.

And as for the triumph of Trump: It was a graveyard smash!