SIR - With regards to Donald Trump, it is clear what has fuelled the Trump phenomenon.
A true perception of a previous neo-liberal Obama administration which promised great change but delivered on little.
Clinton came across as being ‘business as usual’ if not worse than Obama if she’d been elected.
Trump posed as being anti-establishment, giving the ‘perception’ of solution and change.
It’s like what one documentary maker described, that people imagined Trump as like a political Molotov to throw at the established order that they recognised as no longer serving America’s needs, in order for change.
The problem is, the same conditions that breed social democracy also create the potential for fascism to rise.
The correct Molotov to throw at the established order for working and middle-class Americans would have been supporting Bernie Sanders over Clinton and the ‘blue intellectual’ states of America recognised this and showed his popularity.
Trump unfortunately is too impulsive, undiplomatic and from a background where he has inherited wealth and not known financial hardship in order to empathise with struggling Americans.
He’s appealed to the negative emotions of the masses and enhanced an ‘even further to the right’ political agenda.
George Hitchcock, Southlands, Baildon
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