If Trump is re-elected, power in the world will be shared personally by Trump, China’s president Xi, and Russia’s Vladimir Putin. Photograph: Doug Mills/The New York Times In the year 2000, an episode of the Simpsons entitled “Bart to the Future” was broadcast. It featured Lisa Simpson becoming US president in 2016 and having to clean up the mess left by a Donald Trump presidency. In 2016, what was the stuff of comedic cartoon shows in 2000 came to pass; Donald Trump was elected to the White House, defeating Hillary Clinton rather than Lisa Simpson. Comedy descended into grotesque reality....