Dishonesty exacting a heavy price - Trump symptomatic of our times

It is difficult to think of a democratically-elected leader whose indifference to truth, whose contempt for the idea much less the practice of integrity is as obvious as President Donald Trump’s is.

Modern tsars, plutocrats or autocrats whose authority is inherited rather than entrusted, especially the beheading kind, can and do dismiss the constraints of honesty as niceties only the simpleminded expect.