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New York: Donald Trump is “uniquely dangerous in the history of American politics,” according to Andrew Sullivan, the acclaimed political commentator, writing in his first piece — a cover story — for New York magazine. “Could it be that the Donald has emerged from the populist circuses of pro wrestling and New York City tabloids, via reality television and Twitter, to prove not just Plato but also James Madison right, that democracies ‘have ever been spectacles of turbulence and contention … and have in general been as short in their lives as they have been violent in their deaths’?”