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Splitting the Political Peak

I’m writing this column just a few days before Donald Trump is sworn in as the President of the United States. By the time you read this, “President Donald Trump” may seem normal, but here in my present, your past, the concept still boggles the mind. Where I live, in the People’s Republic of San Francisco, something like 90 percent of the population voted for Hillary Clinton, so the concept is especially mind-boggling. But a quick Internet search shows me that Brevard County, Florida, home to some of Florida’s best surf (Sebastian Inlet, Spanish House, Melbourne

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