Martina Devlin: The loathsome behaviour seen in Donald Trump’s election campaign must not be carried into ours

If Donald Trump had a game-changing campaign idea, it was the promise to abolish tax on tips. It was ingenious: a simple intervention that people could see improving their circumstances immediately. He read the public mood and captured voters’ attention.

How odd that a billionaire, whose business empire was founded on inherited wealth, grasped that people on low wages were strugg­ling not to sink. Meanwhile, tone-deaf Joe Biden was telling his fellow Americans inflation was falling..