© Cliff Owen/APHillary Clinton during a brief break from feeling sorry for herself.
The impression is of a profound sense of entitlement.
They demand "dump Trump" because they are so certain of their moral superiority. They think if they splash around lazy insults, "racist, sexist, Islamophobe, homophobe", they've won the argument.
They describe a vote for Trump as a "hate crime". Yet they ignore actual hate crimes, like the bashing of a 15-year-old boy wearing a "Make America Great Again" hat in Maryland, or a 24-year-old on the subway in New York wearing the red Trump cap, or a 50-year-old man in Chicago suspected of being a Trump supporter because he was white.
Imagine if it were a Clinton voter who had copped beatings; it would be reported as the end of civilisation and evidence of the utter depravity of Trump voters.
If you needed proof for why Trump won the election, look no further than the hypocrisy of the left's crybabies and sore losers, even now imagining they can bully their way into refusing Trump the job he won fair and square.
And where is President Obama, as his cities erupt? In Germany, with Angela Merkel, refusing to call for peace: "I would not advise people who feel strongly (about) the campaign. I wouldn't advise them to be silent."
Why hasn't Clinton called off her goons? Why isn't she urging that "peaceful transition of power" she was so big on when she thought she had the election in the bag?
She's been at home, feeling sorry for herself. When she finally emerged for her first public function since the election on Friday, she was hailed as a feminist hero for not wearing makeup or brushing her hair. It was a deliberate statement, but what did it mean, other than to enhance the self-pity in which she is wallowing?
"There have been a few times this past week when all I wanted to do is just curl up with a good book or our dogs and never leave the house again", she said, crying out for sympathy, but not respect.
Thus the anti-Trump protesters are being encouraged by their establishment elders, who ought to be setting a good example but instead have resolved their loss by turbocharging their contempt for the "deplorables".
"Trump won because voters are ignorant, literally," wrote Jason Brennan in Foreign Policy magazine.
But when anyone bothered to ask real Trump voters why they did it, as the Washington Post did last week, the answers defy the stereotypes.
"I am a gay millennial woman and I voted for Trump because I oppose the political correctness movement which has become a fascist ideology of silence and ignorance," Samantha Styler, 21, of Arizona, wrote.
Deniz Dolun, 22, of Florida: "My entire family — five Muslim immigrants from Turkey — voted for Trump because of the Democratic Party's pandering to Islamism. As people who have actually experienced Islamism in its purest form... we supported the candidate who promised to help us fight that issue."
Christopher Todd, 53, of Florida: "I voted for Trump on the calculated bet that he would nominate conservative Supreme Court justices. If people want to permit gay marriage or abortion for any reason, then make both legal through the legislature, not via an unelected oligarchy rewriting the Constitution."
Lori Myers, 51, of Texas, wrote: "I voted for Trump because the media was so incredibly biased. They were unhinged in their obvious role as the Clinton campaign propaganda machine."
In Australia, everyone from Bill Shorten to Pauline Hanson has tried to shoehorn the Trump narrative into their own ambition.
Tony Abbott and his boosters are trying to channel Trump's populism into a comeback. But Abbott is part of the problem that Trumpism is reacting against: conservative politicians who wimp out once they win power.
Abbott could have been the civilised, conservative Trump of the Antipodes, but the minute he got into office he stopped being Abbott.
He surrounded himself with "moderates", and bent over to the left on everything from 18C to Safe Schools to higher taxes, fouling the nest for budget repair and ultimately losing his job.
Seeing Trump's success at punching through, you get the impression Abbott wishes now he had been bolder, but it is too late.
His most telling error was to exile Senator Cory Bernardi for his outspoken defence of traditional marriage. Bernardi's career suffered because he never jettisoned his values to appease the left, but his reputation was only enhanced. In exile, he has become a formidable conservative warrior, building a network of 50,000 supporters in his Australian Conservatives movement. On secondment to the UN in New York for three months, he was almost unique in the Australian political establishment in cheering a Trump victory. His 2014 manifesto, "The Conservative Revolution" foreshadowed Trump and Hanson.
If Malcolm Turnbull really wanted to succeed as PM, and preside over a broad church Liberal Party, he would bring Bernardi in from the cold. Inside the tent, Bernardi could save the government from itself.
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