I fear the world is just one step away from complete madness. Looking across the Atlantic, I feel a strange mixture of bewilderment and horror. Can America really be so stupid as to elect donald Trump, [i]really[/i]? I’m sure like many people, for the last few months I’ve been telling myself that, when push came to shove, Americans would get serious and reject trump as the joke he is. But they haven’t; in fact his popularity s growing so that this absurd bully now has a real chance of becoming president of the most powerful country on earth. This is a guy who makes Nigel Farage look sane and tolerant; he clearly has no real grasp of politics domestic or international – and thinks that unsophisticated populist rhetoric is sufficient to rule an advanced, highly complex economy. I fear there is a very real danger here: we cannot really cling to the hope that America will stop playing around and elect Clinton; but if this neofascist buffoon is elected and starts bullying the world as he does america, then I dread to think what will happen.