The election of Mr Trump demonstrated that democracies are not immune to the cult of personality and the attraction of a strong man with easy answers to hard questions. He is the result of an increasing disdain among sections of the Western electorates for ‘politics as usual’. His mantra of ‘America first’ has been put into action, especially in economic policy, but in some respects he has not broken from the truism that ‘America has presidents and it
