Speaking of America, I'm out of outrage.
At this point - and there's months to go before the US election - the question isn't even whether Trump is safe to be President. The question is whether he'd be believable as a TV wrestler.
Someone should just escort him from the premises, blame it on tiredness, jet-lag, medication, and we all (as in planet Earth) move on, relieved that we now only have to deal with climate change. But no, this is happening.
Confession. Part of me (which I'm not proud of) wants Trump to win. If only because I'm curious how the world ends. I'd give it about three weeks from the inauguration. Which would mean the Mayans were only out by five years. (Pretty good for Mexicans, many of whom, as Trump would remind us, are good people, once we subtract the wall-scaling rapists.)
Trump's outbursts are now being queried - charitably - as possible mental illness. He doesn't have policies, he has symptoms. People aren't calling Trump nuts to insult him. They're saying it as a plea in mitigation. If Trump is medically, diagnostically nuts, that's morally more forgivable than him just being the Louis XIV-dash-Kanye of all a-holes. If, one day, a giant tumour is discovered in Trump's skull (which is found to have crowded out all reason, basic primate empathy, storybook-level goodness and 21st century progress, leaving only a pipeline for 18th century slavery-era bile to spurt, via the colon, out the mouth) it well might excuse Trump - but it certainly won't excuse the supposedly cogent adults in the Republican Party who heard his ravings, and filled stadiums to appoint him Fuhrer. Who let this guy drive?
Basil Fawlty has more emotional control. David Brent has more self-awareness. Where is Philip Seymour Hoffman when we need him, to play this monster?
Obviously Hillary is not perfect. America's two-party system is far from perfect. It's more like a hereditary monarchy, or a celebrity-archy. Look how many times the names of Bush and Clinton appear on the list.
Plus, while it's optically a victory for feminism that Hillary is the candidate, the fact is, she had to first be married to a President. Feminism still has a ways to go 'til a woman who hasn't been First Lady runs for President. It didn't matter for Helen Clark, and (shudder) it didn't matter for Thatcher, or (double-shudder) Theresa May. Fair's fair. If creepy evil men can run things, why not creepy evil women?
Even though Hillary voted for war in Iraq, on the false pretext that Saddam had WMDs, she is clearly preferable to Trump. I'm not saying she's Gryffindor, but come on. She only has to be preferable to Donald Trump. This is not a difficult test.