There was a fleeting moment after the first attempt on his life that we saw an unfamiliar Donald Trump emerge, playing the role of conciliator-in-chief. For a day or two, he urged national unity. It didn’t last, of course.
The more familiar (angry, resentful and conspiratorial) version took over at the Republican convention soon after, despite the efforts of party image-makers to portray a different Trump - a loving family man who they claimed had been changed forever by his brush with death in Pennsylvania.
