I confess that last week the results of the midterms –the midterm elections– made my day. Donald Trump is a disastrous president for the United States and catastrophic for the rest of the world, besides being an exhaustive compendium of attitudes that I consider intolerable. To his vulgarity I referred recently on this very page. This does not mean, however, that I believe his final hour as a politician has arrived. In recent days I have read and heard things that contained notable exercises in self-deception (here a good pundit would use the putrid cliché "cheating at solitaire"). Despite the slap in the face, everything remains more or less where it was, but I think not in the sense that explained Slavoj Zizek last Saturday in ARA; I will return to it later. What might happen I do not know, because I am not a futurologist, but I do have clear some things that I will try to break down below.