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During a discussion at Goodenough College in London, a young American couple loudly held forth. They were due to fly home to Duluth, Minnesota, and were asked about the political situation. The young woman “didn’t follow politics”, she said, but she thought Donald Trump was being unfairly targeted. All he’d done was make errors with his tax returns.

Questioned by an elderly and slightly scandalised

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