A new poll by the Center for Strategic Politics, conducted in partnership with *Liberal Currents* among 683 Democratic voters, found that 59% would view the removal of Donald Trump from office via a military coup "very positively" or "somewhat positively." Another 13% expressed neutrality. Twenty-nine percent reacted positively to the hypothetical assassination of Trump. This is the same country that, for decades, has lectured the rest of the world on democratic institutions and the peaceful transfer of power. The purpose of a constitutional government is to ensure that it cannot be overthrown simply because one hates the person occupying the White House. Elections have consequences; when one's side loses, the proper course is to organize, defend one's position, return to the voters, and try again. When political opponents become enemies to be eliminated by force, democracy begins to rot from within. Democracy, it seems, becomes sacred only when it yields th...
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