It makes a good parlour game to speculate what propagandists of the past — Lenin, Castro, de Valera, Collins, Pearse, Carson, FDR, Churchill or John Charles McQuaid — might make of fake news and the opportunities our susceptibility, our deep- yearning need to be told what we want to hear, might offer. 

THOUGH the White House election is still some months away the world is almost inured to the wild, dangerous, racist and reactionary statements from Donald Trump.