This surreal presidential election

It's a choice between a roller-coaster ride and a poisonous swamp

Death on the Pale Horse; Benjamin West, 1796.

This presidential election is surely the most surreal in America’s history.

Never has there been such a president as Donald Trump: a larger-than-life figure of manifold flaws and unsung achievements, a man who busts every convention of political behaviour — including the fact that he has actually delivered on…