The conversation is already happening, and you should be part of it. 𝗝𝗼𝗶𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗴𝗿𝗼𝘂𝗽 𝗻𝗼𝘄. …👇👇

If US politics was a Western, Mr Obama would be the magical preacher, mystically advocating collective action, Mr Trump would be charismatic snake oil salesman, shouting from the side of the wagon, captivating, infuriating and embodying a certain sort of frustration.

We don’t know whether, when the black hats ride into town, he’ll surprise us all with heroic feats, or be discovered cowering under the saloon counter.

But Mr Trump is already much closer than Mr Obama to an American archetype – the boaster -bumptious, self-confident, quick to anger, but with a confidence and optimism in his own abilities, which respect no horizons.

What is attention-grabbing is when the horizons have to buckle and broaden and widen in the face of that force of will.

Mr Trump is the embodiment of the sort of America who shocks Europeans: brash and vulgar and unsophisticated.

Many in the US, particularly on the coasts and in the cities, share that horror.