How desperate were Americans for change?

Donald Trump offered something different to the disgruntled and disillusioned, beating a centuries old, two-party system. He has also made dangerous pledges and has the same access to the nuclear button as he has to his Twitter account, writes Michael Clifford

About a year after Barack Obama’s election in 2008, Sarah Palin delivered a speech in which she had a cut at the new president. Palin had been on the ticket with the defeated John McCain in the election.

She laid out all that Obama was doing wrong, including a lack of transparency in governing.