As I stayed up through the night watching the US Presidential election, I felt like I was living the film Groundhog Day, because it was like everything had happened before. Big voter turnout, people who had never voted, early voting.
At first, the commentators said this was good news for Hillary Clinton, the Democrat nominee. I wasn’t so sure. It felt too familiar, and I no longer trust the pollsters. And then slowly, as the states on the electoral map turned red, I realised this was completely familiar. I had been here before.
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