Donald Trump, the ostensible silver-backed gorilla and alpha male, has poisoned the well for unconventional “outsider” candidates worldwide. Prediction: look for O’Leary to remain safely in TV land, piling up cash, while throwing his weight behind an established politician. Trump, for his part, has ripped the party of Reagan, Eisenhower, Colin Powell and the Bushes down to the studs in the space of six months. And let the search for a polar opposite to Trump – a leader who is pragmatic, sensible, with a long track record of competence – begin. There are much worse things in politics, Trump has made spectacularly clear, than an excess of convention and a few laps around the track.

Source: National Post October 13, 2016 23:03 UTC