THE IMPERFECT STORM: TEN WAYS DONALD TRUMP SWIFT-BOATED AMERICA

Note: I wrote this story just before the 2016 Election, for Newstalk Ireland, in an effort to explain how Trump had changed the very landscape of US politics, and the day before the 2020 vote seems to be a good time to run it again. It holds up particularly well today, because it turned out, unsurprisingly, that his approach to the presidency was almost identical to his campaigning tactics. Looking back, I see a number of points that were prescient, and would come back to haunt us as we discussed Trump. And it was predictive, or did you not see…