Commentary “In a country with two major parties, democracy is safe only if both care more about preserving the political system than about beating their opponents.” If, without knowing who wrote those words, or in what publication they appeared, you had read them a year ago, just after the failed first attempt to impeach President Trump, what country and what parties would you have supposed the author was talking about? No peeking now. Given that the country in question was the United States, which of the two parties would you imagine he or she intended as the one that, by implication, cared less “about preserving the political system than about beating their opponents”? I’ll give you a hint. The words that follow the quotation above are these: “But one of America’s big parties is now willing to break the most basic rule of democracy: that free and fair elections should …
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