LETTER: Democrats and Republicans should rebuild stability
17 January 2021 - 20:00
US Senate majority leader Mitch McConnell’s speech in Congress was the finest a Republican could make, suspending fears that individual conscience and honour are unable to work under liberal democracy’s party system, which mainly turns representatives into servants.
Calmly and decently, without grandiloquence or political carping, he showed, with examples, that Democrats have no moral superiority, no right to sermonise, but only that democracy cannot side with Donald Trump. If principle is involved here at all, that is the principle...
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