Trump

Today Donald Trump will be sworn in as the 45th President of the United States. This premise would have appeared outlandish to me if it had appeared in something like Brass Eye in the 1990s. I doubt I can say anything on the subject that hasn't already been said. I remember wandering around the day after the election unable to think or focus on anything else but the outcome. I will never understand the American people's emnity towards Hilary Clinton, a flawed but eminently qualified candidate. South Park put it brilliantly, as they often do: "We've learned that women can be anything. Except for president".

I do understand the desire to send a message to the powers that be. But to believe that this boorish, narcissistic, ignorant, belligerant idiot is the answer to your problems remains beyond my comprehension. I can only hope that he gives himself enough rope to hang himself with over the next four years. But even then it's difficult to see what he has to do to achieve that. Trump's supporters seem to be so entrenched in their positions that no scandal seems great enough to engulf him. I don't believe Donald Trump will bring about the end of the world. But everything up to that point feels chillingly plausible.