Donald Trump can –and should –be stopped from running in 2024 | Alexander Kirshner and Claudio López-Guerra

This is the moment to send a clear message that democracy need not supply its enemies with the means to destroy it

Democracies do not sprout spontaneously, like red poppies in a field. They are established by brave democrats: people who struggle, sometimes paying the ultimate price, against the forces of authoritarianism. This is how democracies survive, too. There is no such thing as the inevitability of democratic rule once it is in place. It has to be defended.

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