Illustration by The Atlantic. Sources: Megan Varner / Getty; Getty. This election will be decided not by another big popular vote but by the slenderest of margins in the Rust Belt battlegrounds.

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The reelection of Donald Trump would mark the end of George Washington’s vision for the presidency—and the United States.

The attempted assassination of Donald Trump could be the moment that pulls America back from the edge—but it isn’t likely to be.

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