The American body politic has experienced two big - and enormously revealing - shocks in the past month.
The first was political, administered by the Democrats' first debates, which revealed a party whose leading presidential candidates were considerably farther to the left on some key issues - borders, national healthcare, treatment of illegal immigrants - than many mainstream Democrats, not to mention independents and moderate Republicans looking for an alternative to President Donald Trump.
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