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Donald Trump made this week’s “midterm convention”, itself an unusual event, all about him, which is not unusual at all. He is not on the ballot in November, but has decided that congressional Republicans’ best hope is to run as an extension of him. Having hollowed out the GOP,
Lexington argues,
Mr Trump leaves his party-mates little choice.
And
our Schumpeter columnist
looks at retrofuturism: why more companies are designing products and offices to recall bygone times. Most people now tell pollsters they would rather live in the past. But in embracing nostalgia, tech companies risk confirming the belief that the future their products are bringing is scary.
On tonight’s edition of Insider, we look at Islamism in Europe, and whether it really poses the threat many think it does.
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