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Opinion: Trump not an end of democracy, but the result of it

U.S. President Donald Trump speaks to reporters after signing executive orders in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, D.C., on Feb. 25, 2025. (Yuri Gripas/Abaca Press/TNS)

Trump Executive Orders — U.S. President Donald Trump speaks to reporters after signing executive orders in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, D.C., on Feb. 25, 2025. (Yuri Gripas/Abaca Press/TNS)

I have read with amusement some recent letters to the editor decrying our president’s “end of democracy.” I offer the following not as a rebuttal, but as enlightenment.