Why it won’t turn up trumps for the US

When Clinton does win, as she must surely do now, she would be well-advised to stop and take stock of where the US is now at, writes Michael Clifford

DONALD Trump is scary, but not as scary as the circumstances that produced him. How alienated can citizens of the US be that this dangerous buffoon has got as close as he has to being president of their country and leader of the so-called free world?

Difficult as it may be, let’s, for the sake of this column, park the latest revelations about his reptilian attitude to women. Let’s, for a moment, examine Trump as merely a demagogue, who has smashed through traditional politics in a country that claims to be the freest in the world.