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It's unusual for Left-wing families to produce Tory children

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Aug 02, 2022
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Those of you lucky enough to have grown up in the 1980s will probably remember the chuckly light-hearted sitcom Family Ties. The premise of the show was that hippie Democrat baby boomers Steven and Elyse Keaton, formerly of Berkeley and the Peace Corps, had somehow produced a Nixon-loving Republican teenage son, Alex, played by a young Michael J Fox.

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