Trump is finally going, or at least it looks that way!
No doubt he'll have to be dragged out like a kid from a play park that wants one more go on the slide.
So from the view point of a casual observer on the other side of the pond, just what has he done to politics and indeed what have we allowed to happen?
Politics has become decidedly ugly of late, there always used to be a sense of respect for other peoples opinions the very idea in freedom of speech Evelyn Beatric Hall once wrote "I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it" as an illustration of Voltaire's beliefs and although it should possibly stand true for all of us I think the words carry less meaning now than they once did.
When the leader of a nation has such views that fly in the face of diplomacy, no that fly in the face of common decency it empowers those with similar beilefs or worse to become emboldened and that is exactly what we have seen over the last few years.
You could almost directly attribute the rise of the far right within Europe to Trump, I don't mean to think for one minute that he directly influenced european politics but when conceptually the largest super power on the planet is governed by a man with clearly racist views and misogynistic beliefs it allows those that keep their more harmful views to themselves to speak out which makes others do the same and so on like a snowball rolling down a snow slope picking up pace until like dominoes governments all fall down - to the right.
