Country Life

Letter to America

SOMETIMES an event so dramatic occurs that time seems to stand still —a wildfire, a catastrophic flood, tanks rolling down the tree-lined avenue of a capital city. You may think me feeble, but the presidential debate in Ohio on October 1 felt like one of those cataclysmic events. You may say, ‘but nobody got hurt. Nobody died.’ But I’m not sure. In my rather long life, I’ve never witnessed a president behave as I saw that evening. Not for the first time in nearly four years, I believed that this US President has done irremediable harm

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