For the last few months, I’ve had a new hobby: American Politics.

Actually, that’s a lie. It’s less American politics I’ve been consumed by and more Donald Trump — specifically, how much I hate him.

I can’t even begin to tell you how fixated I have become on the US election between Hillary Clinton, aka the most qualified person ever to run for President, and the man Rosie O’Donnell accurately describes as “the orange anus”.

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But with Trump and Clinton, that gap is so wide, so extreme, I feel like the stakes are IMPOSSIBLY high. America is the biggest superpower in the Western world. It has the capacity to impact all of us, not just economically, but also to start wars, finish them, and set the moral tone.

The American President sets the tone in many ways for the entire world. That’s why Obama – as the first African-American President – felt like a great step forward for diversity and tolerance and equality.

And why a narcissistic bigot like Trump would be a massive, dangerous step backwards into a dark abyss of hatred, bullying and fear.

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No Donald. You're fired.

Clearly, Rosie and I have a lot to learn from the goddess Michelle Obama, who says, “When they go low, we go high” and has never once mentioned Trump by name.

"A misogynist, a racist, a bigot." And a lurker.

In Donald Trump’s sick world, there are only two types of women: those he wants to fuck and those he finds disgusting. He refers to women in both categories as ‘it’. He is the worst type of human. A misogynist, a racist, a bigot.

So she’s incredibly well versed in American culture and politics while still being very Australian. She came back a few months ago to start a new job here as the editor of theGood Weekend- the magazine that goes insideThe Ageand theSydney Morning Heraldon Saturdays.

"I made a new friend."

She and I have bonded over American politics. We’re constantly Whatsapping each other links. She’s as obsessed as me with watching what seems like a cross between a slow motion car accident and the worst kind of reality show.

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