Has American politics been taken over by conspiracy theories?

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Mehdi Hasan on Trump’s midterms disaster

The Democrats led a ‘blue wave’ across America, taking control of both the Senate and the House in Congress, and leaving Donald Trump all but powerless in his remaining two years in the White House. Trump may have been defanged and neutered by the results of the midterms, but tha ...  Show more

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