Tennessee media identity Clay Travis has cleverly identified the failings of government as he writes that US President Trump operates at the speed of business while the Democrats operate at the speed of government (“Prez running at the speed of business”. DT, 5/2). Perhaps by always focusing on transparency, widespread consultancy and due process, democracy has become bogged down, especially when blinded by a rewriting of language by the woke, promotion of divisiveness to empower minorities and where “common sense” has been sidelined. With the inertia of government empowered by red tape and bureaucracies isolated from the realities and needs of the man in the street, the Trump phenomenon was perhaps always inevitable. With the global reach of the US, he will be impactful here changing our perspectives of the failings of government without us fostering our own mini Trump. Alan Sexton, North Parramatta 6Feb2025