To the Editor:“What Really Saved the Republic From Trump?,” by Tim Wu (Op-Ed, nytimes.com, Dec. 10), has it exactly right. Federal criminal prosecutors, military officers and state elections officials standing up for democratic norms formed a red, white and blue line separating democracy’s safety from its demise. It also was citizens, joining together to speak and act, rallying behind the people in government who spoke truth to power. What saves the Republic — now and going forward — is a shared commitment to the democracy we love. The fact that President Trump’s autocratic words and deeds are endorsed explicitly and implicitly by so many of his supporters means that our essential norms are being badly eroded.

Source: New York Times December 21, 2020 20:03 UTC