""But this messy nominating process has eroded the standing of both candidates.""

From three thousand miles away, THIS is the one sentence which stands out stark, clear, and oh so believable from all that half baked crap about race and misogyny.

I made a comment further up the thread, which I have been constrained to modify, and it is now much more resonant with the impression I got from afar, of an electoral process which seems to have a corrosive effect on those involved.

It now reads:-

Looked at from this side of the Atlantic, your election process is like a 24 hour childbirth.

23 hours of pushing, shoving, and screaming, and a serious likelihood, at the end of the process, of losing the mother, the kid, or even both.

You need an electoral Caesarian option, to excise those who don't recognise defeat, in a hurry, once it becomes clear they are hanging on just to hang on.




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