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This surreal presidential election

This surreal presidential election

It's a choice between a roller-coaster ride and a poisonous swamp

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Melanie Phillips
Oct 27, 2020
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Death on the Pale Horse; Benjamin West, 1796.

This presidential election is surely the most surreal in America’s history.

Never has there been such a president as Donald Trump: a larger-than-life figure of manifold flaws and unsung achievements, a man who busts every convention of political behaviour — including the fact that he has actually delivered on…

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