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Donald Trump and the Republican cabaret show

12 November 2015

3:00 PM

12 November 2015

3:00 PM

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A friend of mine asked his father, aged 82: ‘Dad, at this stage of life, what do you enjoy most?’ Dad replied: ‘Voting Republican and being left alone by your mother.’ Surely an unimproveable definition of bliss.

My friend told me this in the 1980s, long before the Republican nomination contest turned into reality TV.

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