US electorate can deal with Trump’s bluster

Terry Prone tells us in relation to the American presidential election that ‘the rest of the Republican candidates for the nomination ... have to cope with rampant hatred, as a tool deployed by (Donald) Trump’ (Irish Examiner, January 11).

This is a much more serious issue than what Terry Prone calls “media noise”. It is not just the Republican candidates who have to deal with it. It also has to be dealt with by the free media and the electorate in the most powerful democracy in the world.

It raises the question for example as to whether a campaign by Hillary Clinton to the be first woman to fill the most powerful political post in the world can be damaged by the fulminations of someone who even embarrasses the patriarchy.