Over the past weeks in the US, liberals and progressives, and some conservatives, expectantly awaited the results of the elections for the complete demolition of Trump and Trumpism by the American electorate. Instead, Trumpism has triumphed with 47-48 per cent support. The frightening prospect has emerged, together with a Republican majority in the Senate, that Trumpism, now validated as a political strategy, will continue to influence the policies of the Republican Party, marked recently by obstruction to climate change measures, intensification of efforts to dismantle Obamacare and resistance to relief measures to working people, the middle class and small business.