Excluding Donald Trump From Office Would Help Our Democracy

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

54% : Moreover, in studying democracy, political scientists have also learned a lot about what it takes for countries to become and remain democratic.
50% : However, in the various attempts political scientists have made to measure it, all of the most respected methods have embraced the notion that democracy exists on a spectrum.
48% : It is here that we see how democracy, if it is to thrive and survive over the long-term, will at times require anti-democratic action in much the same way that a garden plant will require pruning to reach its maximum potential.
33% : However, while they are technically right in this determination, their argument rests on a surface level conclusion that fails to see how, on balance, excluding Trump from holding a second term would help our democracy far more than it would hurt it.
30% : While I am personally skeptical that the 14th Amendment will ultimately disqualify Trump from future office, the anti-democratic nature of such a prohibition is simply not a legitimate concern.
24% : Even so, they and the others contending that the 14th Amendment exclusion of Trump from the ballot is anti-democratic are correct on this issue.
23% : assistant professor of business law, Georgia College and State UniversityA number of politicians, pundits, and even legal scholars are beginning to parrot the claim that the Supreme Court of Colorado and Maine's Secretary of State are anti-democratic due to their finding that Donald Trump is disqualified from holding future office under Section 3 of the 14th Amendment.
22% : Donald Trump sought to overcome the will of the American public by staying in power through overtly illegal and anti-democratic means.
17% : This last feature, access to power, would be eroded in the United States if Donald Trump were to be denied the chance to run for the presidency again.

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