Can you smell the schadenfreude in the air?

Watching some of the worst people in the world get their comeuppance this week has been deeply satisfying. And the show isn’t over yet. While the midterms have wrapped up, the blame game is only just getting started, with Republicans desperate to find scapegoats for their shellacking.

He may be a big, strong, testosterone-obsessed warrior, but I suspect Pete Hegseth is panicking right now. When it comes to scapegoats, the defence secretary (or “war secretary” as he prefers to identify as) is an obvious choice. The disastrous US-Israeli war on Iran played a key role in the midterm upset, as even JD Vance has admitted , and Hegseth was one of its main architects.

The Democrats have already declared war on the former Fox News personality.…