There's a link between the Trump process and the Referendum process. Neither is about their ostensible purpose - a decision about who will run for president or the status of the EU in the UK. 

The way the Tories staged a Jacobean revenge tragedy without blood, or a series of poorly propped doors falling in sequence splattering the residue of the previous fall. It was a clear out of the politicians and hangers-on and wannabes, an entire Ancien Regime swept out to sea. And its return on the next tide.

There were 12 candidates - a sorry crew of chancers, hacks and "mayor of a small Sun Belt city". And this revved up Homer Simpson caricature - that is a caricature drawn by Homer - with no story, no structure, no staying power, nothing much to say but one-liners about what he didn't like. All delivered like a dodgy comedian, a warm up man, all pointing and pouting and posturing.

He has the same function : to winkle out the Tea Party / Evangelical / party hacks. None of whom even put up a simple response or even an adult reaction to the torrent of nonsense. Even Ted "Machine Gun Bacon" Cruz, zip, nada, nowt. 

To expose them as the hollowed out effigies of competing political factions was beyond the capacity of any opponent, only their own side could attack. The central paradox is there. 

Having shown them to be the worthless hacks they are, he is last man standing and he's worse.

The collapse of the Republican Party and then a new Republican Party run by the same arrangement of power blocks in American capitalism. 

The trick will be to do this while losing the election after months of Trumpery and enraged middle aged clones. 

Or the whole project collapses if he wins - an clinically stupid and borderline fascist chancer elected to the most powerful political position on Earth. That is the end game.

A collapsing superpower run by a clown, with more nuclear weapons than anyone else and the world about to implode. Ayn Rand probably had this idea, Nietszche, Carl Schmidt, any number of lesser luminaries of the psychotic right. A fantasy which can be operationalised with a few million dollars and a willing clown.

Grunting towards November wading through American euphemism and the search for zingers. If they elect Trump, we deserve him. The principle of "Oh dear" and dying capitalism locked together going over the Reichenbach Falls.

And then we wake up. Or not.