And if Trump’s success poses a cultural threat to the UK, well we can fight that. We can campaign to present ourselves as a better alternative; a supportive but firm country. A country that can foster business while increasing workers’ rights, build more affordable housing without unnecessarily blaming immigrants for problems, protect women from male violence, give them access to more, not less, rights over their own bodies, go greener without sacrificing the rights of workers’ incomes, defeat our own drug crises without unfairly criminalizing addicts, while celebrating our diverse population for all their merits. Maybe I’m ambitious to think that America might one day look to us as an example of how to get things done. Perhaps I am optimistic about what this Labor government could do. But right now we have a lot more to work with than American women, and you never know. Maybe America will start looking at us the same way they used to look at Scandinavia. Progressive, productive and, ultimately, something to aspire to. After all, you can’t be it if you can’t see it.

Culturally, there are setbacks. Trump’s victory is a terrifying blessing for the manosphere, a co-signature of what Joe Rogan, Jordan Peterson and Andrew Tate are telling young people about the “tyranny” of feminism against them. It’s a boost for the anti-immigrant rioters who caused commotion across the UK this summer, as well as those more bellicose, Laurence Fox-style right-wingers who say they were simply exercising free speech. Trump’s victory is proof that Elon Musk’s abuse-filled X is a powerful tool that can be deployed to satisfy whoever this glib billionaire is trying to impress. Fixing young people’s zombie attitude toward hate against women and the persistence of far-right movements won’t be easy to solve, but we are the country of Online Safety Lawand a government promise to halve violence against women and girls. If we can’t do it, who will?

Culture is an import that Trump will not want to pay tariffs on. He used to call himself “Mr Brexit” and knows the Clacton-on-Sea MP personally. Now, I’m not saying we can use Nigel Farage as leverage, no matter how desperate he is to ride a sidecar for his friend. It certainly shows that Trump is watching what we’re doing here.