To begin, we are not a democracy. We are a Constitutional Republic. But I'll forgive him for this since he is English.
"They understood that such a pageant is the stuff of despots, not democrats." Trump is neither.
"This too is what dictators do: demonising a group – in this case, migrants – as an alien threat, an army of invaders, so intensely and for so long that eventually any fate, no matter how brutal or inhumane, seems deserved, even when it is inflicted on that group’s youngest and most vulnerable members. Breaking up families, caging children in hot, fetid, disease-ridden camps – this is what dictators do."
No, it is dictators won't let citizens leave their country. These are not migrants or an alien threat. They are gate crashers who want to break the law and jump to the head of the line.
"...he’s building a hereditary dynasty,..."
It takes e******ns. We are not a monarchy. That why we declared our Independence from you.
"...meet foreign leaders at his hotels, so that he can profit ..."
The implication that he is somehow violating the Emoluments Clause. He is not personally benefiting so it doesn't apply.
"...handing him another propaganda gift last weekend by setting foot in, and thereby legitimising, the s***e state Kim rules so bloodily – and, once again, getting nothing in return."
It ain't over until the fat lady sings. The U.S. has wasted almost 7 decades ignoring N Korea. Trump is trying to convince Kim Jong-un that capitalism and free-markets are the road to prosperity for his people, instead of shooting off rockets and building nuclear weapons. Isolation and sanctions have achieved nothing. Your buddy Bill Clinton had a chance to stop him but was too busy getting oral sex in the Oral Office.
"...Mohammed bin Salman, even though the UN and the CIA both agree the Saudi leader was directly responsible for the violent murder of US resident Jamal Khashoggi."
You don't even know what Trump has told him about Khashoggi. He might have said anything like this ever happens again and we are through. In the meantime, Saudi Arabia is a primary ally against Iran's theocracy. In the M.E. the enemy of my enemy is my friend.
"...he would not accept the outcome of an e******n he lost."
For good reason, The Democrats hired a former MI-6 to write a phony dossier. Hillary took debate questions ahead of time furnished to her by the DNC. The DNC sabotaged the Sander's campaign and gave Hillary the superdelegates for her nomination even though they steadily profess that every v**e should count. One person-one v**e; not for Democrats.
" So great is his sway over his dev**ees, he can make them believe even what is provably false."
Not so. I'm no dev**ee of Trump, but they know he is an SOB; he gets results and has tried to keep every campaign promise. No one else has done that.
"...forever railing against the “f**e news” media and all but abolishing the White House daily briefing,"
Obama would court favor with the media so that the minions would line up to receive just a tidbit of information from his administration. He held back real news from the media and lied about Fast & Furious, IRS targeting of conservative groups, B******i, etc, etc, etc,.
Anyway, you get the idea, and I'm not going to spend more time on refuting this i***ts nonsense. This Guy is just another opinion that doesn't amount to a hill of beans in the big picture. He should stay on his side of the pond if he dislikes it here so much.
All-in-all, fiction, not fact, is what you opine and promote.