A Tolkienesque look at the U.S. election

It felt like ‘Mount Doom, here we come,’ after last week’s Republican convention. But then there was a ray of sunlight.
Virginia Senator and Hillary Clinton's running mate Tim Kaine, pictured in June.
OTTAWA—Watching the Republican National Convention from Canada was like gazing at the ominous distant mountains of Mordor from a peaceful round doorway in Hobbiton. The brew of hate and fear woven into grim nationalist sentiments was so potent that it got many Canadian hobbits worrying that this ...

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