White House race 2016 - Could Trump be elected president?

DISENCHANTMENT with traditional politics is being expressed right around the world in sometimes bizarre but always energising ways.

In Britain Jermy Corbyn, the newly-elected Labour leader, has tapped into the growing determination to stop the gap between the mega-rich and the vast majority of workaday citizens growing ever wider.

Despite suggesting that his leadership makes Labour unelectable, those who scoff at his achievements must envy the groundswell he has generated by doing no more than suggesting that there is a different, better way of doing things.