‘People don’t need no jobs,’ said Mike Judge’s marvellous comic creation, President Dwayne Elizondo Mountain Dew Herbert Camacho. ‘I’m gonna tell you what people need, people need money, lots and lots of money… we gonna print so much damn money, I’m gonna give every single American one million dollars. Ain’t gonna be no more one percenters. Everybody’s gonna be million percenters.’

President Donald Trump hasn’t yet gone full Camacho. But he’s getting there. Last night, at the glitzy Republican midterm convention in Dallas, Texas, he introduced the ‘Trump Dividend’ – a $5,000 (£3,700) reward for every adult US citizen on the condition that his party keeps the House and Senate in November.

It’s hard to look at the Trump Dividend and see anything other than a democratic system in decline

It’s hard to look at the Trump Dividend and see anything other than a democratic system in decline

‘If the Republicans win,’ he declared, ‘you win with us and you get $5,000. It will be called the Trump Dividend.’

He added another caveat: ‘We don’t want you going to China, to Germany. You........

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