THE PLUCKY SOCIALIST BRITS AT THE GRAUNIAD ARE TAKING THE NEWS OF TRUMP’S VICTORY REMARKABLY WELL. And when I say “well,” what I really mean is this: Guardian staff offered Trump therapy over ‘upsetting’ result.

While Republicans across the US celebrate Donald Trump’s victory and eagerly await his return to the White House, those that backed the wrong horse appear to be struggling to come to terms with it. Mr S is still waiting to hear whether certain lefty celebrities are going to follow through with their plans to leave the country over the result, and a number of pundits are still recovering from their fantastically inaccurate predictions about the race. But we should also spare a thought for some of those hit hardest by the announcement: Guardian journalists.

It now transpires that the newspaper has reached out to its employees to offer, er, Trump therapy. In a company-wide email, editor Katharine Viner sympathised with staffers saddened by the outcome of the ‘dramatic night’. Assuring journalists she knows ‘the result has been very upsetting for many colleagues’, Viner has encouraged UK workers to contact their American counterparts – as ‘they will be most directly affected by the result’. Going on the Grauniad editor gushed:

“If you’re not in the US, do contact your American colleagues to offer your support… It’s upsetting for many other

I want to say that George Orwell would be shocked by how far his fellow British socialists have fallen — but to be honest, based upon his low opinion of the typical socialist Brit in 1937’s The Road to Wigan Pier, he wouldn’t be at all. And today on both sides of the pond, the cognitive dissonance of leftists imagining themselves as being the second coming of the French Resistance intersecting with the level of safetyism they’ve had drilled into them is astonishing to watch.