No Damascene conversion for Donald Trump and foolish to expect one

Media has yet to come to terms with the revolutionary change created by this man, writes Terry Prone

The funniest thing about the reaction to Donald Trump’s last press conference, pre-inauguration, was how astonished it was. Particularly on the part of media people who, in theory, should not be surprised by much, because it’s their job to be at astonishing events in order to write the first draft of history. But they were astonished, nonetheless.

This may be because of the ungovernable belief in improvability resident in humanity. We used to start improving babies in the cradle until Dr Spock and Co suggested that trying to teach a six-month-old a moral lesson by immuring it on its own in the dark mightn’t be that great an idea. But we’ve never given up on toddlers. Toddlers are there to be directed away from whatever they find most interesting to whatever an adult believes they SHOULD find most interesting. They exist to learn how to share. That’s the biggest virtue of toddlerhood. Sharing.