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[The Editors is called The Editors, plural, not The Editor, singular, for a reason. When I launched it, a shrewd friend advised, “it can’t just be you.” I’m delighted to start introducing some additional voices. Today’s comes from Michael Mosbacher, who is associate comment editor at London's Daily Telegraph. He is a past editor of Standpoint and The Critic, having co-founded both British magazines.—Ira Stoll.]

Boris Johnson and President Trump in a photo released by the White House.

The British response to Donald Trump’s victory has been entertaining. The left-wing press — including the state broadcaster, the supposedly impartial BBC — has had a meltdown. Politicians who have been banging on for years about what a monster the 45th president is are busy rowing back, saying their assessment was always much more nuanced and that their past statements have been taken out of context.

Quite how you take British Foreign Secretary David Lammy’s past comments out of context is another question. In 2018 he described Trump as a “woman hating, Neo-Nazi sympathizing sociopath,” and on another occasion as a “deluded, dishonest, xenophobic narcissist.”