But Trump has set off a profound crisis of democratic legitimacy that even a resounding Joe Biden victory may not completely resolve.
Black America, to take one obvious example, has never experienced equal treatment from institutions like the police and the courts.
The civil-rights movement has consisted in large part of fighting to extend the protection of the rule of law to Black people.
The experience of Black racial oppression shows that the absence of the rule of law is a pervasive, terrifying insecurity.
A society without the rule of law is one in which the strong prey upon the weak.
The criminalization of politics is a kind of toxin that breaks down the cooperation required to sustain a democracy.
There is less precedent for what to do when a reasonably healthy democracy elevates a career criminal to the presidency. »
