US mid-term elections - Public rein in Trump’s behaviour

America’s friends and allies couldn’t do it. Nor could America’s potential enemies. Neither could his wife, children or White House staff. It took the American people to reign in Donald Trump.

What the results of the mid-term elections will mean for his presidency will depend on Trump himself and his willingness to compromise, at least in terms of domestic issues. Internationally, it may give authoritarian political leaders and movements who took heart from Trump’s election pause for thought. At the very least, Trump’s loss of significant legislative power will make it harder for those groups to represent themselves as part of what his former confidante Steve Bannon called a “globalist populist movement”.