What Australians should understand about Donald J Trump

This enrages those classes even more because it is not only a mark of a lack of respect towards them, but a clear sign that the views of the elite cannot withstand scrutiny if the only way to defend them is collective ad hominem attacks.

President Trump is not a Nazi. I've read Mein Kampf and he doesn't hate Jews-his son-in-law is one and the Abrahamic Accords are the biggest step forward in that part of the world.

He's not in favour of some sort of state-corporate marriage either.

He slashed red tape and regulations when he was in power.

It's his opponents who use the regulatory state to manage and muzzle their opponents through arguably unconstitutional control of media and social media.

He certainly seems like a womaniser. Does that make him a misogynist? Or does he just have poor impulse control, like Bill Clinton? And that question means he's really just level-pegging with the Democratic establishment who've tolerated President Clinton's peccadilloes for decades.

World War III? Well, it didn't start in his last term, and if it does in his next it will be inherited through mistakes made in the last four years.

Racism? Interestingly he gets more support from black Americans than any previous Republican and does even better amongst Latinos.

Is he Xenophobic? If wanting to secure your border against illegal immigration is xenophobic, then he's on a par with the average Australian who's voted time and again for strong borders.

And all of this makes him extreme right-wing? Who knows what words are supposed to mean anymore?

The charges that seem to stick in many Australians' minds are that he is an "election denier" and an "insurrectionist."

Well if he is, so is Hillary Clinton, who spent money to have the "Steele dossier" written-a fabrication of Russian influence in the 2016 election, since completely demolished, and which formed the basis for the first impeachment of him by the Congress.