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The likes of Adam McKay, Bette Midler, Sophia Bush, Stephen King, John Cusack, Christina Applegate reacted to Donald Trump inevitable win with a mixture of shock, anger, confusion and mainly sadness. Let the Democrat dooming begin. Hollywood went to bed on Tuesday night dreading the prospect of Donald Trump winning the 2024 presidential election as the former president began racking up state after state. But there were perhaps still hopes of a 2020 style reversal on Wednesday morning, if the big swing states in the much-vaunted ‘Blue Wall’ came through. Alas, the hopes were dashed after Wisconsin was called for...

There have been a thousand warnings about former President Donald Trump. If polls are to be believed these warnings have fallen on deaf ears. What accounts for this imperviousness despite clear evidence of his dangerous and egregious flaws? This question has stumped many. As a psychiatrist and psychoanalyst who has long worked with complexities of mind, let me offer psychological explanations then suggest remedies that could help permeate this apparent impenetrability. He offers a sense of omnipotence. Trump makes it seem like nothing is hard, meaning it's easy to be all powerful....... He helps people deny painful realities and threats,...

I was driving home today and listening to the local news on the radio. They had a typical Trump hit piece of an interview with a local Democratic Party Congressman in DC. The Congressman said that the Russian inquiry is at a critical stage where new sweeping revolations are coming every day. In particular he stated that it is now known that Trump Jr. was in touch with Wikileaks and as everyone knows Wikileaks is an agent of the Russian government.

Sitting down for a friendly chat with Chelsea Clinton on Tuesday’s NBC Today, co-host Savannah Guthrie sympathized with her one-time network colleague over Hillary Clinton’s “devastating” loss in the 2016 election: “Well, we know of course that your mom is a woman who inspires you....She’s actually been more in the spotlight recently, and really, I think, seeming to open up about the emotional process of dealing with an election loss. She’s called it a ‘crushing and devastating blow.’” Guthrie fretted: “Set politics aside, just as a human, what has it been like for you as a daughter to see her...

Will Boo Hoo Bama now take to city streets with lesser known Snowflakes waving a placard emblazoned with the words ‘He’s not MY president’? Raise your hand anyone who ever saw Barack Hussein Obama in a bar raising a glass with the common rubes? Millions of Americans may see a Marxist behind every tree, outgoing President Obama sees “Fox News in every bar and restaurant in big chunks of the country”.

GLASGOW (Reuters) - Britain's ruling Labour Party lost a parliamentary seat in one of its traditional strongholds, a stinging electoral setback for Prime Minister Gordon Brown, results showed on Friday. Defeat in Thursday's poll in the Glasgow East constituency, which Labour won with a huge 13,500 majority at the 2005 election, will fuel Labour discontent with Brown's leadership and could lead to moves to oust him, some analysts believe. The pro-independence Scottish National Party (SNP) scored a dramatic victory by a slim 365-vote margin as voters in Britain's third-largest city turned against Labour in droves. The result, following a series...

ELECTION POST-MORTEM While most Republicans woke up this morning lamenting Armageddon Tuesday, some of us didn?t lose any sleep over the election results. Happy at the prospect of two years with Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi running Congress? Hardly. But there are a lot of silver linings behind these otherwise dark clouds? * The single, most important lesson here: Democrats didn?t win; Republicans lost. And they didn?t just lose; they were routed. Voters didn?t reward Democrats, they punished Republicans. Badly. This wasn?t the country saying it wanted to go further Left; it was the country saying Republicans had already taken...

JEDDAH, 8 November — THE DAY after the US midterm elections this week was a dark one for Democrats: President Bush and his Republican candidates swept the elections, regaining control of the Senate, adding seats to their majority in the House of Representatives and winning a few key governorships in New England (Massachusetts and New Hampshire). No matter that the Democrats had won the governorships of Michigan and Pennsylvania, key industrial states, the losses in the Senate were humiliating enough. My take on the whole debacle is that the Democrats have been scared ever since the attacks of Sept. 11,...