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 It's difficult to believe that Donald Trump may become president of the United States once again. That he has been able to influence 49% of the polling population to endorse him and to say they will vote for him is historic. As someone once said., his criminal record would bar him from working at McDonald's, which he pretended to do in a photo op a couple of weeks ago, in response to hearing that, Harris had worked there when she was younger.
-Whatever the outcome of this election, the ability of trump and his campaign to spend any version of reality, divorced from evidence and fact, and to override the Constitution in flagrant ways, indicates a type of nihilism that perhaps Nietzsche and others had suspected was going on in the late 1800s.
+Whatever the outcome of this election, Trump and his campaign's ability to spin any version of reality, divorced from evidence and fact, while overriding the Constitution and people's fundamental rights in flagrant ways with impunity, indicates a type of nihilism that perhaps Nietzsche and others had suspected was going on in the late 1800s.