The convicted felon was about to become the 47th President of the United States. We were glued to the television. Sky News was all over the voting trends, including from the better-than-Antony Green, Tom Connell.

Would we switch channels to enjoy the parade of exploding heads on the Australian Broadcasting Corporation? The tears would well up, the voices would falter, the gloomy looks would be obvious. The handwringing would soon be in full swing.

Of course, plenty of utterances would be made about it being ‘too early to call’ – the ABC conceded that Trump had won four hours after Connell declared Donald the winner. The key messages of Harris’s campaign would be re-prosecuted repeatedly.

In the end, we stuck with Sky News, knowing that the key meltdown moments on the ABC and other media outlets would be shown on high-rotation by Sky News. My personal favourite is Whoopi Goldberg, but I’m happy to consider other entries. There is a certain joy – there’s that Kamala word – in observing those predictable souls completely losing it.

You might expect me to focus here on the US election being all about the economy, the cost of living and border control. And there is a large chunk of truth in pointing to the importance of these factors in determining the outcome.  ‘Do you feel better off than four years ago?’ is a killer electioneering slogan.

But let me instead concentrate on Kamala.  Leaving aside her weird choice of monotonal pants suits on high rotation, it’s impossible to disagree with Trump’s view that she is as thick as a plank. I would routinely attempt to follow her lengthy word-salad responses to simple questions, but I would always be none the wiser. When it comes to her analytical ability, it’s a 1 or 2 out of 10.

The idea that she had, once upon a time, got up in a court room to make a case before a judge or jury seems ludicrous. But, hey, maybe her DEI credentials meant that she was quickly booted from doing this sort of grunt work to sitting behind a desk in a large office raking in a mega-salary? (No, not maga-salary.)

Let’s face it, everyone other than Democrat apparatchiks and brainwashed liberals in California and New York fully understood that she was the DEI candidate, chosen based on the three criteria: diversity, equity and inclusion. Bumbling Biden basically admitted it before she was chosen as his VP: because she was a woman and a person of colour. The fact that she was a complete klutz was a plus for Joe, politically speaking.

She had stood for presidential nominee before the 2020 election but had lasted a nanosecond. That was telling.

The fact that the left-leaning mainstream media could go from bagging her out for her incompetence when VP to singing her praises when she was slotted into the role of presidential nominee tells you pretty much everything you need to know. The overpaid talent – OK, pause for a little chuckle here – in most US media outlets are just cheerleaders for the Democrats. They simply cannot claim to be objective analysts.

But who was advising Ms Harris to spend all her campaigning time simply denigrating her opposition? Does anyone really think that calling someone despicable names and imputing vicious motives are the highway to winning? When she, in all seriousness, agreed that Trump is a fascist – oh, please, give me a break – she was also telling his supporters that they are fascists too.

In the end, we heard virtually nothing of what she was proposing, although maybe that was for the best because I’m not sure she really understood what she was saying.  For example, she didn’t seem to realise that ‘gauging’ and ‘gouging’ are the not the same words – oops.

And which geniuses in the Democratic party thought that it was a good idea to launch a lawfare tsunami against Trump in the years leading up to the election? From the very start, this looked like desperate stuff, as Democrat officials initiated multiple cases to bury Trump. At best, it smelt of a crooked judicial system; at worst, it looked like outright corruption designed to bend the courts to their political preferences.

It reached a low point – very low – when there was an attempt to have Trump excluded from the ballot paper in Colorado. You cannot be serious, to quote another American with a hot temper but a very successful career. And to think that Trump was being portrayed as the threat to democracy.

And here’s an important point: he might have been a convicted felon, but he was their convicted felon for the over 50 per cent of voters who gave him the thumbs up. The question was: if the legal authorities can go after the Trumpster, can they go after anyone, including me?

Kamala’s DEI status was always going to come back to haunt her during the campaign.  Her support for taxpayer-funded ‘gender-affirming’ surgery for prisoners and illegal migrants was never going to go down well with middle America.  But the advertisement put together by the Republicans was spot-on. ‘She says they/them, he says you’ was beyond brilliant.

And getting all those highly made-up celebrities to endorse her – whose idea was that? When did Beyoncé or Cardi B go down to the supermarket and worry about paying the bill? As for Oprah, was she on some drug as well as Ozempic when she spoke?

And what about the pants-suited one’s concession speech, delivered a day late but hey, she was a tad upset? Didn’t you love that stuff about us all needing to be kind to each other, after she had spent over 100 days vilifying and defaming her opponent? And what was all that bilge about keeping the dream alive? What dream would that be – the one that voters just rejected?

I continue to enjoy the meltdowns of those afflicted by Trump Derangement Syndrome. All that insane, hyperbolic twaddle that was written and said before the election should, by rights, come back to haunt the purveyors. I wouldn’t be surprised if the ABC had to declare a mental health day for its staff and offer free counselling.

So many of them just look like complete dopes. They were all desperately trying to talk up Kamala in the final days of the campaign. The Iowa poll must be good news. Harris will win the rust-belt states. John Lyons was sent to the US by the ABC to deliver this baloney. You could almost hear Patricia Karvelas furiously nodding her head on her RN program.

It is said that Donald Trump staged the biggest political comeback in history. In 2022, he was gone for all money. While he never gave up, it was probably the missteps of the Democrats that really paved the way for his return. The lawfare, the senile octogenarian president, the insane VP pick, the manic abuse of Trump – these were key factors.

You just must laugh.