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SCantiGOP
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SCantiGOP's Journal
July 26, 2018
3rd most important thing to preserve democracy
Third is the right to free elections, which we have every 2, 4 or 6 years.
More important on a daily basis are an independent, non-political judiciary; and a strong and unrestricted free press to hold the government accountable.
Trump knows that undermining the first two makes it possible to eventually restrict the third.
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