The most optimistic commentators say we can’t yet tell what his policies on various crucial issues will be but those more nervous point to some of his initial cabinet appointments and say they know exactly what is coming.

They point to Secretary of State, Rex Tillerson: mover and shaker in the fossil fuel industry, close ties to Vladimir Putin and robust climate change sceptic – watch out arctic; Treasury in the hands of Steven Mnuchin: banker, background with Goldman Sachs and Hollywood, announced first stop tax reform – we all know what that means. National Security Adviser, Michael Flynn: retired general, passionate anti-islamist; Attorney General, Jeff Sessions: outspoken racist; Secretary for Labour, Andrew Puzder: Fast Food exec opposed to workplace regulation and Obamacare.

Then there’s Environmental Protection Agency, Scott Pruitt: climate change denier and enemy of EPA; Secretary of Health and Human Services, Tom Price: orthopod, staunch “right to lifer”, opposed to women’s health programs and Obamacare.

Secretary for Education, Betsy de Vos: outspoken opponent of public education; Secretary for Housing and Urban Development, Ben Carson (token African American?): celebrity pediatric surgeon, staunchly opposed to government welfare, Obamacare.

And so the list goes on; it seems that the major things they have in common is that they are all significantly wealthy and that they are all inclined to deregulation across the board.

Trump himself is an avowed deregulationist and that suits people like him; insatiably greedy “me first” capitalists thrive in environments where there are few regulations to protect the planet and the public from their grab-all endeavours and allow them to protect their own self-interest.

The commonplace shelled out to school kids is that capitalism is the best system for social development – at least that was the line I got at school – but in many ways it is a barrier to social development as vested interests protect their current “nice little earners”. We see this glaringly in the way the tobacco industry misinformed the public for years; in the way that the asbestos industry sold death and pollution for years after they knew what they were doing.

And last century when Westinghouse and Edison wangled the drop on Nicolas Tesla’s proposed electrical distribution system because theirs was easier to make money from, they condemned the globe to the expensive and unsightly world of poles and wires that are with us today – imagine a world without them.

Instead of a world of small government led by business obsessed and greedy “me firsters” we need governments of decent community interested people who are prepared to plan our way into a future that looks after all the people and not just the scum who rise to the top.

Just as when George W Bush and the gang stole their election from Democrat and conservationist Al Gore and changed the course of the world for the worse, so we have the right to fear that the Republicans have done it again; take the most robust water wings you can find every time you go out for the next four years – at least.