A strong dose of home-grown fascism, of a uniquely American kind that no one else can be blamed for, may be just what the world needs to bump the US off the destructive path down which it has so often steered so many of its ever so sycophantic friends since World WarII.

What can be so bad about such an emerging form of fascism if it forces us all to question, seriously, the value and the example of such a soiled dominant power, led as it has been for so long been by smooth-talking Democrat and Republican Ivy-Leaguers who, until Trump, have delivered, just about everywhere, such monumental doses of disharmony and division, death and destruction, inequality and misery?

If it takes the canker of a Trump to oblige Americans to look within for the causes of what mightily afflicts them — and has thus brought about a Trump — this cannot be a bad thing.

The problem now is how much of the canker has to be revealed to motivate them to cure themselves. To get out on the streets. To reimagine a world which they need not dominate. A world in which, thus, greater equality and harmony could be a goal. Naïve? .. sure. Possible? .. why not?

Do Americans have it in them to deal with this? Possibly, but no one else can do it for them. They are on the threshold of upheaval of a kind not seen in their own country in more than 160 years… during which they have quite evidently learnt, or cared very little, about how upheaval has been handled elsewhere and least of all where it has been caused by them.

For change of the kind that is required, Americans will first have to climb down from their mighty high horse of self-belief and of, for many of their evangelical hub, divine right.