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RALLIES, shootings, murder, secret services, a defiant candidate, and a whole new world of conspiracy theories … The presidential race in the US has turned into a farce more immediately deadly than I had imagined.
When I watched events unfold over the last few weeks, I was reminded of something my old cycling coach used to say when we talked politics on the way to races in my youth: “America’s a teenager, Matt. It’s the best and worst of it.”
It might have been a little bit of a patronising judgement on a country of quarter of a billion folk, but I’ve always thought there to be a grain of truth in it. The impetuousness, the certainty of cause, the quickness to fall in love or go to war.
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