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 University A 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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