I think the most worrying part of the US is that so many still loyally back Trump despite all he clearly is from his adult life in business and a decade in politics now. That it is a tight race shows how America can’t be relied to prop up democracy and human rights across the world.
This past decade’s dalliance with populism has sadly normalised the thickest, angriest and nastiest after decades of kicking them into the long grass for the good of society.
But we also need to look at the mechanisms of how this happened, through a lack of applied controls and checks, the dumbing down of the populous and - importantly - bloated bureaucracy left people feelijg unrepresentated and cared for in democratic societies.
Despite all of this anyone backing Trump is a beaut. It doesn’t need to be deeper than that.