Donald Trump shows just how dangerous to democracy he really is – Steve Cardownie

After four years of the erratic and sometimes duplicitous behaviour of President Donald Trump, nothing should now come as a surprise to followers of American politics. He has hit new heights, however, with his assertion that the forthcoming presidential election on 3 November could be rigged.

Speaking to fellow Republicans on the first day of his party’s convention he told them that the Democrats may “steal” the election. He told delegates “they’re using Covid to defraud the American people” and once more made the unsubstantiated claim that mail-in ballots would result in massive fraud.

The evidence is in fact to the contrary and that postal voting cannot and will not lead to widespread fraud but that has not deterred Trump. “The only way they can take this election away from us is if this is a rigged election,“ he told his supporters.

Trailing in some cases by up to ten points in the polls to the Democrats’ presidential nominee, Joe Biden, Trump is determined to serve a second term and no tactic is beneath him.

The biggest threat to democracy in the United States is Trump himself and the chants of “four more years” from his eager flatterers will only surely come to pass if his deplorable shenanigans bear fruit.

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