'Trump's foray into politics is a perpetual game, one that the Democrats falsely calculated they could bring to a close on their own terms. By prolonging the endless twists and turns of his narrative, they have served only to make US politics look emptier without him.

That Biff Tannen is now in charge of the US is proof positive of a kink in the fabric of our space-time continuum. Like a VHS tape that’s been played, replayed, and copied over, the ghosts of movies past linger in the background of the world Americans now inhabit.