I keep on seeing people on the box saying "Don't worry. That was only campaign talk, rhetoric. He won't really do that."

And the nasty Godwin's Law thought kicks in - that was precisely what optimistic voices said when Hitler was elected.

Let's just hope this time they might be right. The feeble ray of hope is the man has contradicted him on just about everything.

I get the impression this is all just a kind of game for Trump. The biggest play thing of his life. As always there are Bob Dylan lines that seem apposite. In this case, chillingly apposite. From Masters of War.

You that never done nothing
But build to destroy
You play with my world
Like it's your little toy...