Over the past few months, many of my British comrades, now in mourning, have wasted untold hours of their lives being infuriated by the anti-Corbyn Labourites — those congenitally outraged nostalgics for the status quo — just as we Yanks have been doing with their US equivalents over here. My advice to my UK friends is this: put aside your bitter feelings and congratulate the kamikaze Remainers and anyone-but-Corbynites on their victory. They won fair and square.

True, our side had the canvassers, the passion, the support of Britain’s youth, the moral high ground, and majority support for our ideas, if not our candidate. But their side — let’s be honest — had the banks, the business establishment, the army, the Tories, the Liberal Democrats, the leaderships of both major US political parties, and the entire British media. Politics is no lark. As Max Weber wrote, it’s “the slow boring of hard boards,” and you can’t deny that practically every board in Britain lined up on their side.

Since there’s no sport in being sore losers, let’s congratulate all the winners out there discreetly savoring their triumph in broadsheet newspaper offices and think tanks all over Britain. They achieved the unthinkable: they managed to convince untold thousands of Britons that their vote didn’t matter. To the victors go the spoils — and over the next five years, the spoliation will be immense.