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That Trump is within reach of the presidency (again) tells us a lot about today’s US
Former US President Donald Trump speaks during a news conference at Trump Tower, May 31, 2024, in New York
ALTHOUGH budding young journalists are advised to “avoid cliches like the plague,” sometimes they are just too apposite to resist.
The biggest take-away from the Donald Trump saga so far is that US democracy is “the best that money can buy.”
That can only be the main explanation for how a brash, trashy, arrogant, nonsensical spiv like Trump could become president of the United States of America — and not once, but quite possibly twice.
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