If Trump dismantles American democracy, Australia faces an existential question | Bruce Wolpe

Australia's alliance is with the US, a country that stands for freedom, democracy, liberty and civil rights. Under Trump, that could be destroyed

Can Australia - should Australia - continue its alliance with the United States if the United States is no longer the United States?

This is the existential question Australia must face if Donald Trump, or a Trumpist, wins the US election in 2024 because at that point, American democracy as we have known it will probably come to an end.

Democracies are more than a form of government. They're a way of being, a way of seeing the world - a way that defines who we are, what we believe, why we do what we do.

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