Meanwhile, in Ireland

Sinn Féin has started reaching out to other parties to try to form a coalition government after final election results confirmed its stunning breakthrough in Ireland’s general election. Its leader, Mary Lou McDonald, is to start talks with the Greens and smaller leftwing parties in the coming days to explore a leftwing rainbow alliance, though parliamentary arithmetic means this is unlikely.

Sinn Féin took 37 seats in the 160-seat Dáil Éireann after winning 24.5% of the first-preference vote in Saturday’s election, almost doubling its share from 2016 after harnessing voter anger at homelessness, soaring rents and fraying public services.

  Guardian

They get Sinn Féin to try to fix things, we get Donald Trump.