Comey testifies to Senate - Presidency holed below water line?

It is less than five months since Donald Trump was sworn in as president but even in that time he and his billionaires’ junta have made fundamental changes to the relationships that sustained American hegemony and, more often than not, championed the liberal, tolerant values that defined the Western world.

He has diminished America’s place in the world in a way that not even his most unheeding, volatile predecessors could have imagined.

That Mr Trump has torn up the rule book is disturbing enough, but that he has done so without offering anything that looks remotely like a viable alternative is chilling for the countries that once looked to America as a protective ally sharing common principles.