Washington, D.C.
Nigel Farage’s 2016 celebration of Nigel Farage’s 2016 is a party that might never stop. And it is a jolly affair. Yesterday, at the Hay-Adams Hotel, in Washington, DC, Nigel and his pals — let’s call them the champagne populists — had a US election bash. Nigel stood up to do his usual routine about how this year would be remembered in a hundred years as the glorious moment when nation state democracy reasserted itself, and everybody cheered.
The champagne populists raised lots of glasses to themselves and talked about how they got Donald J Trump elected to the White House. Meanwhile, the American voters who actually elected Donald J Trump to the White House had had to stand in ridiculously long security queues to witness their moment of history at a concert at the Lincoln Memorial.
I met some real deplorables yesterday — not at the Farage party, of course; they never would have been allowed in.
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