The rise of ‘stupid’ Trump spooks Europe as comedic sideshow turns serious
"Financial Times columnist Martin Wolf said it would be a “global disaster” if Trump became president, calling him “grossly unqualified” and “a promoter of paranoid fantasies, a xenophobe and an ignoramus”. Wolf drew possible historical comparisons with the end of the Roman Republic and even the rise of Adolf Hitler, warning: “American ‘Caesarism’ has now become flesh. It seems a worryingly real danger today"."