It Can’t Happen Here. That was the title of Sinclair Lewis’s 1935 novel in which the fascistic Berzelius “Buzz” Windrip is elected president and within months transforms the US into an American Reich. Well, maybe it just did happen here.

The litmus test will be how far Steve Bannon’s appointment as chief strategist to the ­president-elect, Donald Trump, signals the triumph of the will of the so-called alt-right. Will he be Lee Sarason to Trump’s Windrip? Are we all doomed to the Third World War, only this time with America on the wrong side? A week and a half after Trump’s election, a more or less complete uncertainty reigns as to what direction his foreign policy will take. All we have to go on are