Politics will make this short-fused egotist explode

RAISING wages, creating decent jobs and better health care, and forging a fairer society by enhancing opportunities.

These are all issues championed by left-wing and liberal politicians. But, yet again, a reactionary demagogue has exploited them for his own demonic ends.

Predatory lying racist Donald Trump is a $5billion political fraud. He has postured as a saviour of America’s dispossessed to pull off a version of Brexit. In both cases, turbo capitalism sucked in working people – extracting all the profit from their communities and winning their votes – then got ready to spit them out.

Despair has been exploited and fear has been spread, injecting racial prejudice to divide struggling families. Parties like Labour and the Democrats must hugely enhance their offers to the left-behinds in former industrialised cities seduced by the siren voices of the likes of Trump.

DOORMAT

Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher deceitfully played the “I care” trick before Trump did. But it is at its most brazen with Trump, wallowing in a mega inheritance at the heart of the establishment that he denounces for the ears of the gullible.

As part of this elite, he has rubbed shoulders for decades with the political class in Washington he now violently rails against.

He has never served, though – never having governed a state or sat in Congress. That inexperience may contribute to his undoing.

Running a business isn’t running a country. And the thin-skinned, short-fused egotist is likely to explode when even fellow Republicans refuse to shout “how high?” when he barks “jump”.

Germany’s Chancellor Angela Merkel sent Trump a barbed message of congratulations.

She said: “Germany and America are bound together by values: democracy, freedom, respecting the rule of law, people’s dignity regardless of their origin, the colour of their skin, religion, gender, sexual orientation or political views. On the basis of these values, I am offering to work closely with the future President of the United States, Donald Trump.”

By contrast, doormat Theresa May invited the White House racist to walk all over Britain.

In a shamefully mealy-mouthed squeak, May said: “We are, and will remain, strong and close partners on trade, security and defence.”

It smacked of a begging letter. She will learn that if she gives Trump an inch he’ll take a mile.