Be calm: Trump is not the worst and won’t go unchallenged | Simon Jenkins

The Republican candidate won as the outsider who was going to shake Washington up – now comes the reality

Did he really mean it? The mushroom cloud that has risen over American democracy is a question mark. Did Donald Trump mean the hatred, the belligerence, the racism, the boasting and the lies? Was his witches’ Sabbath of a campaign all a gigantic act, a ritual wallow in mud before the cleansing douche of the ballot? Is a man so incapable of courtesy and human kindness remotely suitable to l...