The Problem of Donald Trump Didn’t Start with Donald Trump

democratic elections are not meant to adjudicate such matters anyway. They are by definition a mechanism of temporarily designating who gets to run the country. (The question is posed to voters again and again, on a regular schedule.) If the issues at stake are about the very “soul of America,” democracy quickly reveals itself to be a profoundly unsatisfying means of organizing our politics.

via The Problem of Donald Trump Didn’t Start with Donald Trump

Worth a read.

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