Americans' anger against their elite could just make Trump's day

Washington

I KNOW, I know. I've been repeating myself and at the risk of sounding like a broken record (or what millennials refer to as "Vinyl") let me repeat myself. Again.

It would have been impossible, like totally impossible - and in the sense of "no way in the world" - that in a "normal" presidential election year a public figure looking like, talking like, and behaving like, the Donald would have been running as the presidential candidate of any political party.

No! He wouldn't have been nominated as the presidential candidate even by a Stupid Party representing the leading comedians in the country and sponsored by the Onion, the magazine that specialises in posting fake news.

Indeed, if a creative screenwriter had submitted a script for a film in which he depicted a billionaire running for the presidency who bragged during the last month of the campaign that not paying federal taxes "makes me smart", staggered around the stage in mocking imitation of his adversary's recent bout with pneumonia, and feuded with a former beauty queen and tweeted about her weight and alleged porno film - only to discover the candidate himself had a cameo role in another soft-porn flick - the response from the Hollywood movie studio would have been: "Hey, sorry, but this is too weird even for a movie. It's be…