We give Donald Trump way too much credit. Since his inauguration, I have read countless editorials on how he is ending democracy.
Trump is just the cough of a virus, the pus of a boil. He may be an asp on the veins of democracy. But he did not cause its downward slide, even if he accelerated its pace.
Before Trump took the oath of office, democracy was already an illusion for those relegated to the margins of society. Accusations of him masterminding the demise of democracy are overblown.
They mask the deeper truth: this country never truly had a democracy due to the complicity of Euro-Christians in preventing it from ever taking root. White Christian nationalism and democracy are mutually exclusive, incongruent and unreconcilable.
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