Meanwhile, he seems to be just the little blue pill the impotent conservatives in America have been craving. Hillary is scary for other reasons and you have to wonder how come, with 300 million inhabitants, it came down to these two.
There's a bandwagon gathering speed which is arguing about water and the powers over the issuing of consents. The same old culprits of "divide and conquer" are there - Don Brash, Muriel Newman, Winston Peters, Uncle Tom Cobleigh and all.
The catchcry is that the Government is about to sign away to Maori the ownership of water in New Zealand. Not a shred of evidence to prove this and the suggestion is divisive and generated by their own full-page advertisements. Yet none of it has come to pass.
The appointment of people to consenting authorities for the issue of water rights has been going on for decades, and nobody gave a toss until the appointees were Maori.
The fact that the Treaty of Waitangi has assured rights over natural resources for over 150 years but this was never enforced is an indictment. The courts have insisted we finally pay more than lip service to these rights and found that we'll be in breach of international law if we don't ... so the scaremongers have got that old bandwagon rolling.
There are votes in paranoia. We have seen it before and I have previously been the beneficiary of it - to my embarrassment.
I said to Don Brash the other day: "Don, if you get what you want, you'll put race relations back about 40 years."
He said: "Yes, that's right. That's where they should be, and I don't really expect you to support me in that, Chester." He is right on that.
There is a bandwagon that is labelling people racists.
The explosion of views on Maori wards for the New Plymouth District Council and the media interest around it has caused a storm. Wards have been part of New Zealand democracy forever - apparently it is fine when they are defined geographically, even though they are really only a way of ensuring cross-population representation so the little guy gets a say at the big table even if he lives remotely.
Wards limit the power of democracy, because to stifle the voice of those without numerical political clout would be unfair. So we make sure democracy is over-ridden in the interests of justice.
But wards are abhorrent, apparently, if the lack of representation is created not by address but by ethnicity.
Maori seats are barely acceptable in Parliament on the basis that Maori candidates can win in general seats. "If one can, they all can" - so the cry goes up to disestablish Maori seats.
Yet no Maori has ever won a general seat campaigning on Maori issues. The need for these issues to be heard may not have been the reason why the seats were created in the first place, but it is the reason they have been retained.
Remember Maori seats were created because Maori had such a weight of numbers that pakeha would not have been in control on a vote-by-vote basis.
There are bandwagons for poverty and housing, education and welfare, religion and refugees, and if you have just fallen off one, there'll be another along in a minute, heading in the same direction with nobody at the wheel.
