The second problem is that anti-democracy, in the form of Trump, is being accomplished democratically.
Though he tried and failed to stay in power by force, Trump is now asking people who might share his anemic vision of America to vote for him.
You can say a vote for Trump is a vote against democracy.
There’s some merit to that – I’ve done it – but it runs the risk of being so abstract as to be meaningless.
That way, we don’t take for granted that the people we are trying to persuade understand what we mean when we say Donald Trump threatens democracy.
Trump himself is not the story – nor, however, is his fate simply a distraction from what really matters.
But that’s also precisely what makes it fundamentally incompatible with a nationalism that insists on white Christian patriarchal supremacy. »
