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Paul McGeough

Paul McGeough is chief foreign correspondent for the Sydney Morning Herald.

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump campaigning in New York on Tuesday.

Trump is frightening the golden geese

For a while it seemed that Republicans figured they had no choice but to fall in behind the presidential candidate who hijacked their party – that would be Donald Trump.

Donald Trump answers questions during a news conference in New York, where he laid into the media.

Donald Trump? Adolf Hitler? GOP doesn't really care

At this point, it's fair to say that if the angry old white men who are a rump constituency in the Republican Party were to hit on Adolf Hitler as a presidential nominee, the party establishment likely would say, 'well, that's nice – he'll do.'