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Whenever I am asked to appear on television, I remember Gore Vidal's remark that he never passed on an opportunity to have sex or to be on TV. If you want to see the 13-minute dialogue between Ricardo Raphael and me about the ascendency of Donald Trump in the race for the Republican nomination on Raphael's show Los Corresponsales, click here. Forewarned is forearmed: you will have to first suffer a 30-second promo for Peña Nieto's State of the Union address.