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In the spring I wrote that my favorite reality television series was the U.S. Presidential Primary Season, but who knew that Donald Trump would play the starring role?

His candidacy has exceeded audience expectations. This is simply because the Comb Over is a master of the sound byte and, more important, is a one-man demolition squad when it comes to political correctness or debunking stances concerning sensitive matters of state.

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Trump is refreshing in contrast to the beige, nuanced and platitudinous candidates who have dominated election cycles in the United States for decades, and still do in Canada and Europe.

Trump is the black and white candidate who is bluntly for or against things, and who raises taboo topics and prescriptions. It’s not just entertaining but it’s also informative, from a policy viewpoint, and will goad the others into more concrete policy platforms. Like Scott Walker’s crazy, but frightening, idea of building a wall to divide Canada from the United States.