Donald Trump has talked casually of making himself a dictator if he gains power again this November. While that has alarmed many liberals, a significant number of Republicans actually support Trump’s aspirations. Seventy-four percent of GOP voters say that they would support Trump seizing dictatorial powers for at least one day, and pro-Trump organizations have already drafted in-depth operational plans instructing Trump on how to accomplish that.
President Joe Biden, in contrast, made democracy itself one of the key values of his campaign against Donald Trump, and told Americans that “democracy is who we are.”
Watch the above video as Straight Arrow News contributor Dr. Rashad Richey argues that Americans must once again vote in an election for the survival of democracy itself.
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The following is an excerpt of the above video:
Of course, [Donald Trump] would have done those things that we consider to be adversarial to democracy, antithetical to America. He did it while he was president of the United States, attempting to recruit a foreign head of state to investigate his political opponent.
We are dealing with two very different realities in the United States of America. I would like to say that I can wax poetic about all of the policies that are on the ballot this presidential cycle, but I can’t, not in good faith, because I understand the biggest policy that’s actually on the ballot. And if you really search your heart, you realize I’m telling the truth. The biggest policy on the ballot is democracy itself, it’s democracy itself.
You see in a democracy, I tell my college students this often, in a democracy, there is no finality. You see, you get an opportunity to get it right again, if your person doesn’t win this election cycle, you get another opportunity to hopefully elect somebody who embodies the values that you believe in. And these values should be echoed by the leaders you elect.