Funny, this is the second time the Foundation novels have come up this election. We got a note from a Trailhead reader shortly after the New Hampshire primary, when news of Hillary Clinton's teary eyes were making the rounds, pointing out that a prime minister to the emperor in one of the Asimov novels, having been exposed as a robot, held a press conference during which he laughed and cried in order to defuse suspicion.

I haven't read the novel, but a blogger named Timothy Birdnow did a writeup on it.

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