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With less than a week to go, let’s talk about expectations, specifically the widespread expectation that this shouldn’t be a dead-even race. The idea usually comes from liberals and Democrats, who tend to believe that Donald Trump is such a uniquely dangerous threat to democracy, individual liberty and the rule of law that it boggles their minds to see him running neck-and-neck with Kamala Harris. The foremost problem is that liberals and Democrats presume too much. They presume that all Americans, by dint of being American, believe in democracy. They think that if Trump and the Republicans wo…