http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/gerard_baker/article4735295.ece
It's funny how the harder you look at something, the harder it can be to
understand it. I can't recall a US presidential election that has attracted
more attention. But neither can there have been a time when the world has
watched what goes on in America with the nonplussed, horrified
incomprehension it has now.
Travelling in Britain this week, I've been asked repeatedly by close
followers of US politics if it ca
