The acid test of a democracy is accepting the results when you lose. Al Gore and Hillary Clinton are the gold standard: they accepted being denied the White House even when they had won the popular vote. In Gore’s case, he lost the votes of five Republican lawyers on the Supreme Court. In Hillary’s, it took voter suppression plus Russia plus Jim Comey’s intervention plus the Electoral College to keep her out of the White House. But here’s the deal: both of them accepted the result. Does anyone think Trump will? Me neither. So we had better be prepared to stand strong for our democracy if and
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