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July 20, 2024   Without exaggeration, this was the most bizarre, extraordinary week for American politics in living memory. Seven days ago Saturday, the last (and quite possibly next) US president was grazed in the ear by a bullet while campaigning to become just the second executive in history to serve non-consecutive terms in The White House. Donald Trump -- by providence or by luck -- remained among the living. The margin between life and death was, by his own account, about a "quarte