In a sane world, this would have been enough to disqualify him on the spot

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Exremeophile American politics at work, I think - we'd be much better off if there were at least five political parties so they had to actually work together to form coalitions big enough to get their way, rather than being able to clump up around Us-or-Them issues and double down to try to stack things in their favor whichever one ends up in control, for all the Libertarians piss into the wind trying to be a serious third option.