If, after all the votes are counted, Donald Trump is declared the winner of next Tuesday’s U.S. presidential election, his supporters will correctly be able to say that American democracy has given their candidate the right to impose his agenda on the country. And then President Trump will set about destroying that very same democracy.
It would be within his elected mandate to do so, having effectively campaigned on a platform of turning the United States into an authoritarian state under his rule. Do the people who intend to vote for him understand that?
It appears they don’t, or if they do, they don’t care, or they care about other things more. The polls somehow have Mr. Trump in a dead heat with Kamala Harris, the Democratic nominee. It is agonizing to watch.
The Globe has become unreadable in the past month. Advanced TDS is ugly to witness.
