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Trump, visionary or madman?

By Tim Stanley, Columnist, The Telegraph

Donald Trump is a visionary. Why? Because he’s been saying the same things for twenty years about issues that a lot of us thought no one could ever win the presidency on. War. Trade. Immigration. Crime. Where other Republicans feared to tread, he went there. His victory in 2016 was, at the time, a huge surprise. In retrospect, it makes perfect sense.

Now, just because a man has great political instincts doesn’t make him a good person. Trump is crude and a real challenge to the US constitution. In a sense, he’s not even very conservative. Most conservatives want to reduce government. He wants to put it on the side of his supporters.

But he won in 2016 because he felt and articulated the pain of many voters better than anyone else. And his administration's policies on tax, energy, defence and foreign policy make him perhaps the most radical president since Reagan. Dangerous? Perhaps. But the press, the courts and even his own party are doing their best to curtail him. His opponents have grounds to hate and fear him. But they’ll only beat him if they first acknowledge what he’s got right.

By Janet Daley, Columnist, The Sunday Telegraph

What is most alarming about Donald Trump is not his childish behaviour or his uninformed capriciousness. Even his thuggish, mafia-boss language could be excused as a kind of idiosyncratic style. They are seen by his supporters as unimportant.