He’s a racist, a bigot, a fantasist, a modern Mussolini to the right of Marine Le Pen. And that’s only what the Washington Post thinks of Donald Trump. The rest of the American press and the might of national TV stations add a whole new lexicon of infamy. Yet the Donald just goes on rising, up to 41% on last week’s polls. Whatever happened to the vaunted might of the media? It doesn’t seem to exist. White Republican voters know what they want, and to hell with anyone who won’t agree – just as more Front National voters than ever before raised two fingers to France’s commentators last Sunday. At this rate, you guess, no candidate anywhere who thinks he or she should have done better will be able to blame the scribblers and sneerers. Infamy, infamy! Who cares if they’ve got it in for me?
