Unlike in previous US presidential elections when parties nominated candidates who were in keeping with the long portrayed image of Western democracies as mature and civilised, the nomination of Donald Trump is a game changer. He stands in his own class.
Clichés such as uncouth, egoistic, unconventional, ill mannered, ill tempered, unapologetic racist, arrogant will not begin to describe the man who has every realistic chance to win the forthcoming election in the US.