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Trump against democracy

2020-09-30T22:47:57.781Z


The president exercises the strategy of authoritarian leaders in the 21st century: he restricts democracy while claiming to defend it


President Donald Trump speaks during the first presidential debate with Democratic presidential candidate former Vice President Joe Biden Tuesday, Sept.

29, 2020, at Case Western University and Cleveland Clinic, in Cleveland.

(AP Photo / Patrick Semansky) Patrick Semansky / AP

What would we think if someone tells us about a country in which its president, in the middle of a re-election campaign, asks his followers to go to the polling places to “observe” and “protect” the electoral process of a risk of fraud against him?

A risk that does not exist, according to their own security agencies.

Some of these followers also tend to belong to more or less organized extremist groups, sometimes they are armed, and they have the approval of the president himself ...

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