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** Democracy and reality are on the ballot
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By Will Marshall
Founder and President of the Progressive Policy Institute
for The Hill ([link removed])

As Kamala Harris ([link removed]) and Donald Trump ([link removed]) sprint toward the finish of the shortened 2024 presidential race, it is time to ask: What issue should be foremost in U.S. voters’ minds when they cast their ballots?

It’s not the cost of living, immigration, abortion or foreign wars, though all are critically important. Overshadowing them is this election’s meta-issue — the insistent question that just won’t go away: Can Americans entrust their democratic institutions and traditions to a vengeful Trump and a Republican Party he has remade in his image?

Trump is acutely aware of the danger in that question. He accuses Harris and “radical leftists” of posing the real threat ([link removed]) to U.S. democracy.

With trademark disregard for honesty, civility and intellectual coherence ([link removed]) , Trump piles on the insults, calling the vice president a socialist-communist-fascist ([link removed]) dumbbell who’s “mentally impaired” to boot.

It’s ugly and nonsensical, but, hey, it’s Trump; in his carnival barker playbook, making sense is for losers.
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