Donald Trump has done nothing wrong. Not in one way. The firming consensus that he was a rabid dog that somehow snuck into the conservative camp and killed a basket of puppies who would have made the cutest little floppy-eared presidents, ignores the uncomfortable truth that they were mostly all mad dogs. It also whistles nervously past the millions of voters for whom he was and remains the choice they really, truly, deeply wanted to make.

Trump was saying what they wanted to hear. Trump promised to make everything great again. And he did it without the snivelling weasel words of his rivals.

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump arrives at a campaign rally. Credit:AP

When they dog whistled at racism and bigotry, he just stood up and called brown people rapists. Where they hinted at punitive measures to contain 'the inner cities', Trump just blamed black people for everything. It's a wonder he hasn't broken that most sacred of modern American taboos and dropped a few N-bombs into his campaign speeches yet – but of course there's still a few weeks to go.

His crazed incoherence, his baffling victimhood, his anger and resentment, they're just 'what everyone's feeling'. Everyone who voted for him anyway.