The second was declared last week in Philadelphia: the fight for the soul of the nation against Trump “MAGA Republicans.”This column disagrees that the great struggle is between democracy and autocracy. As the president correctly pointed out, the political basis for America’s democracy is the Constitution. Indeed, the Founding Fathers eschewed “factions” as surrogates for political parties. Yet, along the way, both political parties have proven incapable of properly governing. But the latter, Biden claimed, were destroying the soul of the nation.

Source: The Nation September 08, 2022 15:00 UTC