If you think America’s political travails don’t also affect us, think again?

If you think America’s political travails don’t also affect us, think again?

“Confused? You won’t be, after this week’s episode of … Soap.” – Opening lines from the 1980s comedy series, Soap Years ago I heard a journalist friend tell an audience in London how political journalism was like a cappuccino, all froth and excitement, but signifying little of substance, whereas financial journalism was more espresso, dark, bitter and to the point. Watching America turn itself inside out over the soap opera that is the office of…