A common theme in England's end-of-series woes has been batting collapses and this was as inept and reckless as the others.

Bob Woodward's book "Rage" lays out a terrifying narrative, from taped interviews with Trump himself, of just how inept and dishonest he was.

New England is similarly inept, so this one across the pond stays close.

Interviews with swing voters conducted by major news outlets reveal their disquiet: their belief that whoever prevails this November will not improve their lives and that Washington, D.C. is corrupt and inept.

Since one narrow election victory back in 1992, he has shrugged off subsequent political challenges, helped perhaps by manipulation of the polls and certainly by the divisions among often tactically inept opponents.