So Donald Trump wins a second term (https://www.businesslive.co.za/bd/world/americas/2024-11-06-donald-trump-returns-to-the-white-house/) as US president comfortably, effortlessly, beating a rival who made no endeavour to connect with Middle America, who utterly failed to craft a serious economic proposal for her country and who completely misread the lie of the cultural wars tearing at the US and other Western democracies.

It’s impossible to know how a new Trump presidency affects SA, though he will shake the world. Under Joe Biden we have had a friend in office. He overlooked our failure to condemn the Russian invasion of Ukraine. He accepted our explanations for the presence of a Russian arms freighter in our main naval base. He has been relaxed about our growing alliances with America’s enemies…