The recent US elections and the result in the outright victory of Trump have produced a flurry of comments in the media and on social media, notably twitter. There is an air of glee in the comments from right wing commentators and personalities and an air of doom and gloom and recrimination on what passes for the “Left” (the inverted commas will be explained). Nearly all of the comments demonstrate an abuse of language and a lack of understanding of politics. It wasn’t an either / or choice and there was no Left in the race.