Trump may be fading away, but Trumpism is now in the American bloodstream | Jonathan Freeland

He left in disgrace, yet all signs point to a third presidential run. And his disdain for facts is now an article of Republican faith

We have so much to worry about, it's a relief that at least one big source of angst is no longer there to keep us up at night. Given how much psychic energy so many - inside the US and out - once devoted to him, how he came to invade even our dreams, there is solace in the fact that these days we need pay no more attention to Donald Trump. Right? I'm afraid not.

True, the great orange spectre has disappeared from the social media timelines, exiled by the emperors of Facebook and Twitter, reduced to starting his own blog to get around the ban - an effort that, like so many Trump enterprises before it, was quietly abandoned in failure. It lasted a month.