All these developments are perfectly natural consequences of politics, where personalities rise and fall, where factions wax and wane and where good luck plays its part.
One of the consequences of politics in 2016 was the rise of "budget Infowars" websites: established organisations like Breitbart, but also the huge number of "fake news" sites largely pushing similar lines as Infowars (think: "Hillary Clinton has satanist dinners").
And that sense and feeling were all conveyed by the children participating in the show whether in asking probing questions or presenting the negative consequences of politics on children.
"Christianity is our culture, our civilisation, our basic values," said the interior minister, Mariusz Błaszczak, after the terrorist attack in Nice in July, describing the atrocity as the "consequence of multicultural politics and political correctness".
Much of this is no doubt a consequence of coalition politics: the government in New Delhi has to do certain things to keep its allies happy.
"Politics has gone so hideously wrong, and the death of Tom Schweich is the natural consequence of what politics has become," Danforth told the stunned audience.
Health and what it's for are the inevitable consequence or casualty of politics and policy.
Khan praised the Republican party even as he warned of the consequences of shortsighted politics.
But sooner or later moderate liberals are going to have to own the consequences of their politics.
This country has turned its back to their veterans (including my husband) and has placed the consequences of playing politics on the backs of those who are already struggling.
