Ed West Ed West

Win or lose, the Trump phenomenon isn’t going away

I felt for the first time on Sunday that Donald Trump might actually win the US presidential election. I’m not the only one moving in that direction. Hillary Clinton looks in bad shape, and while it’s one thing to be seen as dishonest, to be dishonest and sickly is not a great combination.

September 11, 2016 was, as Damian Thompson says, the day the conspiracy theorists were proved correct, for once. Conspiracies about Hillary’s health were popular not just because the Clintons have consistently been dishonest throughout their career. It’s also because the American media has become far more partisan, and major publications and news channels have seemed to drop all pretence of impartiality in this election.

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