It is that consensus that Donald J Trump and his virulent followers threaten this year and that marks him out as the most unique major party candidate in a century and a half. The peaceful transfer of power every four or eight years is a hallmark of American democracy, cherished as a cornerstone of maturity here and looked at with envy in those countries where pretend elections are used to legitimise unelected tyrants. Not that there will be much magnanimity in Trump even if he were to win. While it is fashionable for Republican candidates to routinely bash the mass media (except, of course, their darling Fox News which is, ironically, co-owned by a Hamas-loving Saudi prince), Donald Trump has taken that dislike to a venomous banana republic level. It is not that Donald Trump would have been a misfit of a president … in Zimbabwe, Singapore, or Uzbekistan, that is.

Source: Dhaka Tribune October 21, 2016 18:00 UTC