The great irony of conservative support for Trump is that it will almost certainly put a Clinton back in the White House. On Friday night, when the Trump tape was released, the world ought to have been paying attention to the leaked transcripts of Hillary’s closed-door speeches to Wall Street executives.

They are illuminating. Clinton said that the State Department she headed was targeted by hackers “every hour, more than once an hour” – indicating that she understood the security situation when she chose to process classified information through a vulnerable private email server.

Clinton also detailed her vision of a northern hemisphere without borders and argued for European-style healthcare. All of this would have damaged her in an ordinary campaign. But Trump has let her off the hook. The sheer spectacle of his candidacy has eclipsed her mistakes.