Republican Party nominee Donald Trump is no longer "presumptive''.
He has been confirmed as the party's official candidate to contest the presidency of the United States of America.
He is racist, narcissistic and barefaced in the way he chops and changes his stated views.
He is a demagogue who plays on the fears of the populace, a lightning rod for discontent and unease, for resentment and blind patriotism and nationalism.
Simple slogans are the order of each day of the Cleveland Republican convention, empty phrases that do not bear close examination.
"Make America Great Again'' is Mr Trump's catch-all catchcry.
The subsidiary themes each night are "Make America Safe Again'', "Make America Work Again'', "Make America First Again'', and "Make America One Again''.
The Brexit campaign in the United Kingdom similarly slung emotional slogans into the public arena.
Facts and truth do not matter.
Nor does any sort of coherent plan once the battle is won.
Mr Trump, like Boris Johnson in Britain and a Brexit ideology, has no plan for making American great again.
What he does possess, though, are the gifts of performance, unshakeable confidence and cunning.
He is a bully and buffoon full of bluff and bluster whose sheer cheek allows him to get away with outrageous actions and comments.
The convention, traditionally a carefully staged opportunity to razzmatazz the nominee before the country's television audience, stumbled.
Wife Melania Trump was caught with a plagiarised speech, relations between Mr Trump and prospective vice-president Indiana Governor Mike Pence are awkward at best, and Senator Ted Cruz, of Texas, second behind Mr Trump in the nomination stakes, was yesterday loudly booed after he declined to endorse the party's presidential nominee, urging people to vote with their conscience.
Several leading Republicans also declined to attend the convention.
Yet, somehow, despite the shambles, Mr Trump is polling well against Democratic Party presumptive nominee Hilary Clinton.
Somehow, such is the distrust of Mrs Clinton and the anti-establishment, anti-elite mood in the United States that Mr Trump wins wide support.
In some ways, Wall Street, Washington and the powers that be have themselves to blame.
The rich - ironically including Mr Trump himself as the strangest of anti-heroes - are getting richer while the poor languish.
The industrial belt rusts and traditional secure manufacturing jobs continue to disappear to Mexico and China.
The bankers responsible for the the global financial crisis have risen again more powerful than ever.
A swath of the nation is bewildered. Its world has, and is being, turned upside down.
Minorities seem everywhere, gay rights have advanced, "progressive'' agendas are on the march, old certainties are threatened and overturned.
It is perhaps simplistic to pigeon-hole the Trump phenomenon and his support.
And there will be many, especially Republican, who will back Mr Trump just because of distrust and distaste of Mrs Clinton.
But, as with Brexit, many of the supporters of Mr Trump, sadly, could be those who suffer most under a Trump triumph.
Building walls, be they on the Mexican border, on trade or in attitudes will accentuate economic and social malaise.
The world democracies - in a global, technological and challenging world reality - do need somehow to find ways to share prosperity more fairly.
But that will never be achieved by a rabble-rouser who has no realistic plans to put into practice his bizarre and bewildering pronouncements.
