Donald Trump has already subverted U.S. democracy

Despite Trump’s rejection of the most fundamental of democratic principles, millions of would-be voters appear ready to entrust their government and their democracy to him again.

The willingness by maybe half of U.S. voters to accept this kind of authoritarian behaviour in opposition to everything democracy stands for already amounts to a kind of de facto coup by Donald Trump, writes Les Whittington. Photograph courtesy of George C./Flickr

Opinion

BY LES WHITTINGTON

May 29, 2024

OTTAWA—In 2020, incumbent American leader Donald Trump said that he wouldn’t accept the results of the presidential election if he lost. And indeed he refused, going so far as to incite an insurrection at the United States Capitol that came close to overturning Democrati...

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