Tick tock. That’s the sound of the clock running out for Trump’s many British cheerleaders, following the President’s utter shellacking in the US midterms overnight.
The results, which are well on course to being the worst for the Republicans in almost a century, come after the party received record-breaking levels of funding from Elon Musk and other Big Tech billionaires.
As I wrote for Byline Times this morning, the results shows the severe limitations of these attempts to buy up the democratic process, both in the US and the UK.
However, they also have a far broader significance for politics on this side of the Atlantic as well.
Here’s what the Republicans’ historic defeat means for all those British politicians and parties who have now so firmly lashed themselves to the President’s sinking ship.