Under Trumpism the old certainties no longer hold and are starting to ebb away. Do illegal immigrants really have an inviolable and unlimited right of appeal against deportation? Probably not. Is America honour-bound to defend small nations against aggressors? It isn’t. People don’t really believe in the ruling pieties anymore yet they do not know what should replace them; in this sense, Trump, who has only ever presented himself as a figure of expediency, really is the man of the hour. 

Almost every reigning piety has now come in for some deconstruction, except this one

One old certainty remains, however. Even when all the illegals are deported and all the troops come home, Americans will still take it more or less for granted that they will live under a system of justice and administration that’s explicitly racialised. 

In Britain, which Donald Trump is visiting next week, the slogan of the day is ‘two-tier’ justice. The meme spread after it was noticed that last........

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