Video nastiness - US presidential election

IN one respect, it is hard to understand why Donald Trump’s lewd comments about women have evoked such controversy.

It is not as if he ever showed signs of being a kind, compassionate, honourable, and fair-minded individual.

Senior members of his own Republican party and even his running mate, Mike Pence, have attacked him over remarks he made about women in a 2005 video that has just surfaced.