Marion McKeone: Letter from America
We’ve been watching the wrong dumpster fire
For most of the election campaign so far, the United States media has been fixated on the Trump circus, fascinated and appalled by the spectacle in roughly equal measure. When his convention manager Paul Manafort, who knows a thing or two about dirty tricks and despots, said the US presidential campaign was the “ultimate reality TV show”, he wasn’t kidding.
So this week, the focus was on the revelation that Trump, who’s never ...