Our politicians, our diplomats and our spooks, and even our financial industry are very well aware that the end of Trumpism will not lead to a resumption of life as before, or lawful and constitutional government from the United States, or, in the moribund phrase still repeated by our Defence minister Richard Marles, rule-based trade between nations. Too much has happened. The craven US Supreme Court has sold the old republic and its style of government down the river, and even if, Deo volente, the building and its inhabitants were to be vapourised by a lightning strike it is difficult...