I went to bed at nearly 02:00 GMT with the impression that Hilary Clinton would win the presidency of the United States of America. The results coming out looked very close and I was aware that the Democrats have a pretty impressive ground game machine with which to get the vote out. The Democrats were also assisted by a mainstream media that with a few exceptions leans to the political Left and was fully behind the Clinton candidacy. I thought that there were so many balls in the Clinton court that she was on track to become President.

However I awoke this morning to find that I was wrong. Donald Trump is now President of the United States of America. The American people saw through the propaganda put out by the Leftist media and ignored the leftist celebrities who turned out in their droves to support Clinton. Instead the America people decided to think for themselves, not be blindly led by the leftist establishment and voted for Donald Trump, someone outside the bubble of the Left.

I don’t know what sort of President Trump will turn out to but we should hope he can be a whole lot better and less damaging to both America and the free world than Clinton would have been. Hopefully a Trump presidency can end the lunatic policy carried out by Obama of importing tens of thousands of dangerous Muslims posing as refugees. Maybe also a Trump administration can face down the teacher unions and the educational establishment in order to get more intellectual vigour, choice and diversity of opinion into an education system that is failing and damaged by leftist bias.

After 8 years of Obama the new Trump regime has a lot of work to do. Not just stopping some of Obama’s more lunatic policies such as importing dangerous Muslims or giving the Americans an education system they deserve but also rebuilding the economy, reducing the unnecessary intrusiveness of the state in American’s lives and dealing with the disaster that is Obamacare. President Trump (now I didn’t think I’d be writing that phrase this time last year) has to rebuild America’s military and make good his promise to the military veterans that they be treated much better than they have been under Obama.

I don’t think that President Trump is going to have an easy time of it and he’s going to face a multitude of challenges not least those that come from the American Left who will oppose him at every turn. There are a lot of challenges facing the new President and we can only hope that Mr Trump can rise to them.

This election although vitally important to the citizens of the United States is also one that gives hope to those in other nations who are also fighting a destructive Leftist establishment. There are probably at this moment many patriots and others concerned with the deleterious long term effects of the policies espoused by Leftists, who are feeling just that little more hopeful this morning. Patriots of nations outside the USA may be feeling cheered by this result and may be thinking that if a ground-up movement of people worried about the directions that their nations are going can defy the left establishment and propel their choice into the White House, then maybe they can do the same in Britain, France, Germany, Spain, the Netherlands and elsewhere.

Congratulations Mr Trump, you and your supporters have given the left a good political kicking and this particular Briton at least hopes that it inspires my own people to do the same. I wish President Trump all the best and hope that his presidency is a success.