Don't know how flat tax got in there, either, craig, but it's the way of the forum, sometimes entertaining and informative and sometimes aggravating. Flat tax, FBI centre, guns---yes, gun control---are also extraneous to consequences of the US election and its effect on US leadership in the world. On the other question: yes, I'm enraged by inequality, widening of the gap, trashing of the middle class carrying America's load.

What has the attention of the world is the question of how the electorate can change from dysfunctional to responsible government without a well balanced diet of truthful information other publics have grown to expect. From the current Economist: "Politicians have always lied on occasion, but the nature of their mendacity is changing. Donald Trump is the leading exponent of an approach that relies on assertions that “feel true” but have no basis in fact. We examine the causes and consequences of this new style of politics."