A system that allows anyone to make a bid for the presidency is laudable, on paper. Photograph: Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images

Sometimes, you do have to wonder about democracy. Winston Churchill is quoted as saying it was “the worst form of government except for all those other forms that have been tried from time to time …”.

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