If she does win, her opponents on Left and Right will correctly judge that she got to the White House on luck rather than talent. Her election will give her limited political capital. Much of it will be spent on clearing her own name of various charges.

What a depressing state of affairs. American democracy has been hijacked by a political arsonist – a man with little regard for his party or America’s democratic institutions, who has treated the voters in much the same way that he fantasised about treating women. And it was all, I suspect, a fantasy.

It’s worth watching the video in full. He boasts that as a famous man he can kiss and even touch women at will. But when we see him greeted by an attractive TV host, he doesn’t actually do it. The camera is rolling of course, but why would that stop a true Casanova?