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Bridging the great divide

he US has a long history of wildly unqualified and/or ill-suited candidates for our Senate, whose members like to call it – without irony, mind you – “the world’s greatest deliberative body”. James Buchanan coined that moniker and, until the orange dumbsicle came along, he was widely considered our worstever president (1857-61). Why, just in this infant millennium we’ve seen candidates who’ve “dabbled in witchcraft” and said rapes

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