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Not since King Kong atop the Empire State has the world seen a more monstrous thing in America. The rise and rise of Donald Trump, like the behaviour of King Kong is, when you get your breath back, entirely explicable by the behaviour of others.

Trump is the product of the failure of the political class in the US and the Democrats would be foolish indeed to field a particularly repulsive representative of that class against him and yet that, give or take some northern pitfalls seems to be exactly what they intend to do.

In the battle between the shellfire of Hillary Clinton and King Kong Donald Trump some will say in the words of Henry Kissinger "it is a pity that both can't lose" and others, on balance will warm to the beast. After all, there is no beauty in this contest.

Bernie Sanders has been the best candidate and would make the best president and for those reasons seems bound for defeat. Corporate and MSM hostility to him is absolute. He is the classic vindication of the old line though: "first they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they attack you". Only in my wildest dreams does the final bit come true: "then you win".

Bernie seems to have raised enough to fight on and I hope he does. The worst possible outcome to the Democratic race would be an early coronation. America is supposed to be a republic. Once free of Sanders the old Clinton triangulation would kick in. With nobody to her left, Hillary would head straight to the right - a Clinton unchained.

There are many bewildering aspects to this primary race. Not the least of those is why so many African-American democrats are plumping for Hillary. Her husband after all is responsible through his three strikes law for putting enough young black men in jail to found a decent sized country. But more, Sanders platform of economic justice puts far more potatoes on the plates of black Americans than anything Clinton has the remotest intention to do.

Her support for neo-liberal "free-trade" agreements has been disastrous for all working people in America, and for minorities more than anyone else.

Clinton I believe is wholly unsuited to be president. She is dishonest, deceitful, corrupt and above all she has a lust for other people's blood. "We came, we conquered he died" may have seemed like the acme of wit to Mrs Clinton but to many of the rest of us, who were watching the murder and sodomy (with an iron bar) of Gadaafi it didn't seem like a laughing matter.

Not in itself, and certainly not in the aftermath. A lot of other people then died. And some of them were American.

Libya was Clinton's war. It has been a cataclysmic failure. Such failure should not be rewarded, it creates a moral hazard. Even worse it encourages more and worse.

I declare a personal interest. Bill Clinton murdered a friend of mine, the Arab world's leading woman painter Leila al Attar. He didn't intend to. It was worse than that. In order to divert attention from a stain on his girlfriend's dress he fired off a blizzard of missiles. One of them destroyed the main pharmaceuticals factory in Sudan. The other one destroyed my friend and her household in Baghdad. The Clintons didn't care. For them it was all in a day’s work.