The joke in the pack is playing his trump card — stoking resentment

You can’t find a single sentence, in anything Donald Trump has ever said, that might constitute any kind of appeal to the better angels of our nature, writes Fergus Finlay

he free world is in crisis right now. With the exception of Germany, nobody knows how to respond to the tens of thousands of refugees, desperate to escape from torture, oppression and poverty. Day after day, images of that desperation and its often tragic consequences appear on our newspapers and televisions.

As is so often the case in situations like this, the people are way ahead of the policy makers. In our own case, we’ve had a different estimate every day from our political leaders about how many refugees we can support. We will, in the end, agree to take around one refugee for every thousand of us, as I suggested here last week.