When Air Force One touches down on British soil this week, President Donald Trump will have much to celebrate. Trump, a man whose fondness for pomp, ceremony, and being lavished with attention is legendary, will become the first American President to get a second state visit.

For a president determined to secure honours equal to or exceeding his predecessors, that achievement will be a triumph. But Trump, a longtime anglophile who also takes great pride in his Scottish golf courses, has more to celebrate than that: Trump arrives in Britain at a time when it is dominated by American-style politics.

Most British adults had not heard of Charlie Kirk before his assassination in Utah last week (though their teenage children almost certainly had). Despite this, and despite the near-total absen

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