If Trump wins in 2024, then who threatens democracy?

At least Republicans can be found who deplore Mr. Trump’s postelection antics; on paper, a possibility exists that one could be nominated to office. No such possibility exists on the Democratic side, for an obvious reason: To criticize the collusion hoax would be to cut oneself off from the institutional gravy train of the entire Democratic and media establishment, since all are implicated, with the exception of a handful of left-wing reporters who are dismissed as cranks for seeing what’s in front of their eyes.

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Remember, it was Stacey Abrams, not Donald Trump, who invented a successful modern career model by rejecting the legitimacy of her election defeat. Mr. Kagan’s blind spot is how our national establishment disempowered itself as an upholder of the constitutional and democratic “norms” he now calls on it to defend. What the public sees is liars and frauds in every direction. More alarming, to a certain part of the public, Mr. Trump appears as one man doing his lying and fraudulence in the face of the lying and fraudulence of a near-monolithic establishment. Indeed, a disturbing historical question might cross the minds of those remaining Americans who haven’t yet lost theirs. Is it worse to have a leader whose lies and conspiracy theories are refuted by the entirety of the establishment? Or is it worse to have one whose lies and conspiracy theories the establishment reflexively adopts and echoes?

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I don’t know the answer. It would obviously be better if the question never arose. It would be better, I think, if Donald Trump patriotically announced he won’t be taking part in the 2024 election, because he’s become too much of an incitement to too many people.

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