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Introduction
Bruce Waupey is a senior fellow at the United States Centre at the University of Sydney. He worked with the Democratic Party in the US Congress and in Australia he was on Julia Gillard's staff. His new book, Trump's Australia, canvases what would happen if Donald Trump were to win re-election for another term as U.S. president. Michelle Gratton: Why are American politics so dysfunctional? Bruce W Kaupey: The institutions have grown in dysfunctional ways. It takes a super majority to pass almost anything in the Senate. And that means voters in those states are disenfranchised by the skew of the Senate.