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A plea to the west: help us save America’s democracy

Trump, in a blue suit and red tie, looks to side as he stands outside
‘Silence can only serve to embolden him in his efforts to erode the democratic standards embedded in the US constitution.’ Photograph: Leah Millis/Reuters

Donald Trump and his political allies in Washington have undertaken far-sweeping actions to undermine the foundations of American democracy, while simultaneously pursuing policies that erode and disrupt eight decades of trust and cooperation with democratic allies in Europe, North America and Asia.

While leaders in these countries grapple with what is happening in Trump’s America, they must now ask themselves a new and critical question of immense relevance – one that has never been asked before in the modern era:

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