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Imagining how we'd cover overseas what's happening to the U.S. right now.

I’ve long believed that the American media would be more clear-eyed about the rise and return of Donald Trump if it was happening overseas in a foreign country, where we’re used to foreign correspondents writing with more incisive authority. Having watched with growing alarm the developments of the last 24 and 36 hours in Washington, I thought I’d take a stab at just such a dispatch. Here’s a story that should be written this weekend:>

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 hours ago

I love when someone covers U.S. events as though we're a failed third-world nation. Because we are.