The 2006 dystopian satire Idiocracy envisages a future in which humanity has selectively bred itself to be more stupid, meaning that a statistically average man picked to be cryogenically frozen in our time wakes up in the year 2505 to find himself the most intelligent person alive. 

The film’s president of the United States is the former professional wrestler and porn star Dwayne Elizondo Mountain Dew Camacho, a man who fires a machine gun into the air to silence hecklers in the State of the Union address and seeks to solve a famine by watering America’s failing crops with energy drinks.

But even the writers of Idiocracy never had president Camacho threaten to wage war because he had been refused a Nobel Peace Prize. Presumably they felt it would be insufficiently believable. 

Yet here we are – and we didn’t even have to wait 500 years to see something so objectively, stupidly unhinged happen in real life.

Where Donald Trump’s first term felt like watching a bull in a china shop, now the stampeding beast has crashed out through the store window and is intent on wrecking the whole town.

The consequences of having the most powerful man in the world acting like a school bully are manifold.

That he has set his sights on Nato, threatening to destroy the most successful defensive alliance in human history, right in the........

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