Gerard Howlin: Trump may be a charlatan, but he's also a prophet

President Donald Trump. By this time next week he may have lost office, but the dislocation he articulated and manipulated may be the harbinger of an age. Picture: AP

There is galloping enthusiasm for an end to Trump next Tuesday. Opinion polls are against him. Early voting by mail and in-person favours the Democrats. 

Their majority in the House of Representatives seems assured, and a majority in the Senate within reach. Georgia, which hasn’t voted for a Democrat since 1976, or even Texas with a similar history of abstinence, may be in play. It is heady stuff, but it may miss the point.