“But this case demonstrates that, like democracy itself, our complex system of governance is better than its alternatives.”
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Unfortunately, Donald Trump isn’t aware that he lives in a democracy. In addition to the three branches of government (Legislative, Executive, Judicial) healthy democracies depend on free elections, opposition parties and a free press. And yet, Trump belittles “so-called judges”, he says elections are “rigged”; he calls his opponents “liars” and “crooks”; and the media, according to him, are biased and dishonest.

Unlike his businesses, President Trump is not running an empire, he is governing a country. He is responsible to the people – they employ him --  and he is bound by a Constitution and the laws which arise from it. Unless he learns very quickly the meaning of “democracy” his days as president are numbered.