Happy Halloween. Let¡¯s talk about something really scary: elections in the United States and Japan.
I say scary because these countries are the No. 1 and No. 3 largest economies in the world, not to mention representative democracies considered too big to fail. Yet the way things are going is truly frightening.
Let¡¯s start with election campaigns in the U.S., since they are probably very familiar and fresh to readers:

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