The fightback against Trump starts with Meryl Streep’s Golden Globes speech

There is a Facebook group called Meryl Streep is our goddess. This sentiment surely extends way beyond Facebook. Her speech at the Golden Globes where she received a lifetime achievement award was typically brilliant.

The joy of this particular instance was that she called Donald Trump to account without ever mentioning his name. She singled out rightly the lowest point in his campaign, when he mocked a disabled New York Times reporter. The pussy-grabbing remarks, remember, were exposed by others but his mocking of disability was done in plain sight at one of his rallies. This outright bullying would not be tolerated in primary school.

The fact that Trump can get no one anyone has ever heard of to play at his inauguration has been a big joke and a small comfort. It reminds me of going to Tory party conference where the only celebs they could muster were Tony Hadley and Jim Davidson, whereas Labour always had a vast array of glittering famouses.

The celebrity class may have been knocked sideways by not being on the winning side. They too have to reconfigure to find the best ways to put the heat on the incredibly thin-skinned Trump, because he appears to care about celebrity as a guarantor of ratings, and approval, yet it is proving something money can’t quite buy. The man-baby has already reacted on Twitter, as he has nothing else to think about but an “overrated” actor. As ever, the priority is his ego. Streep’s speech is a spark. The fire needs to spread.