John Barron: Why I won’t call Trump barking mad, but I’ll happily say he’s a ‘moron’

John Barron has been co-hosting Planet America with Chas Licciardello for the past 12 years .

He is the author of a book on the history of US presidential politics since the 1960s , Vote For me ! The Long Road to the White House .

He says there was absolutely no chance that Trump could win the election in 2016 and that’s still my answer today .

Donald Trump has come along at a time when Americans are gradually losing their religious faith.

Trump is a prophet, if not a messiah, for that movement and day to day events don’t change that.

In troubled times, people throughout history have been attracted to strong political figures, strong men, and that is what he is skilled at projecting.

He reminds me a little bit of late-career Don Rickles , who was saying the same things on Johnny Carson’s Tonight Show.

Peter Bergen says Kamala Harris is the odds-on favourite for the Democratic nomination.

He says she's tapped into more of the mood of 2008 in the Obama election than 2016 where Hillary Clinton was yet another Clinton .

Bergen: If Trump wins, it’s not so much re-election as a fear-election-election relapse.