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“This is not just an election between Donald Trump and Joe Biden,” the Vermont senator and Democratic runner-up said in remarks on Thursday. “This is an election between Donald Trump and democracy – and democracy must win. ”

The senator said it is “absolutely essential” for Republicans, Democrats and others to combat the president’s threats “to keep faith with the American ideals we hold so dear and with the sacrifices that so many made in order to protect our democracy.”

“No matter how rich and powerful you may be, no matter how arrogant and narcissistic you may be, no matter how much you think you can get anything you want, let me make this clear to Donald Trump: Too many people have fought and died to defend American democracy. You are not going to destroy it. The American people will not allow that to happen.”"

Bernie Sanders details Donald Trump's efforts to steal 2020 election in urgent call to action | The Independent

“Trump’s refusal to commit to the peaceful transfer of power is the behavior of a desperate would-be dictator who’d cling to office even if it meant destroying our democracy,” the former Democratic presidential candidate posted on Twitter.

“It’s pathetic. But because he is the president, we should take his threat seriously,” she warned.

‘We should take his threat seriously’: Hillary Clinton calls Donald Trump 'would-be dictator' trying to cling to office | The Independent

"Hundreds of retired US generals, admirals, and other national security and defence officials have endorsed Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden over Donald Trump, including two four-star officers who served for years high up in the Trump administration.

“While some of us may have different opinions on particular policy matters, we trust Joe Biden's positions are rooted in sound judgment, thorough understanding, and fundamental values,” the officials wrote in their letter.

“The current President has demonstrated he is not equal to the enormous responsibilities of his office; he cannot rise to meet challenges large or small. Thanks to his disdainful attitude and his failures, our allies no longer trust or respect us, and our enemies no longer fear us,” they wrote.

“The next president will have to address those challenges while struggling with an economy in a deep recession and a pandemic that has already claimed more than 200,000 of our fellow citizens. America, with 4% of the world's population, suffers with 25% of the world's COVID-19 cases. Only FDR and Abraham Lincoln came into office facing more monumental crises than the next president,” the ex-national security aides wrote."

2020 election: Hundreds of ex-national security officers endorse 'honest' Biden over 'disdainful' Trump | The Independent

"After 75 years of world dominance, America is visibly in steep decline. Covid-19 has highlighted the inadequacies of a leader who behaves as though he has stepped out of the pages of Tacitus’ lives of the Roman emperors. Panels of historians regularly list him as the worst American president since Warren Harding. 

Last week, when The Independent’s chief US correspondent, Andrew Buncombe, was arrested for reporting on a Black Lives Matter demonstration in Seattle, the police behaved as savagely as if he were a Guantanamo prisoner. Buncombe’s cool, dispassionate account of the casual brutality with which he and other prisoners were treated was devastating. Under any previous American president, the degeneration of America’s police would have sparked immediate concern. Not under Donald Trump.

Since 2016, an average of a thousand people a year have been shot dead by America’s police: 45 per cent of them white males, a disproportionate 23 per cent black males, 16 per cent Hispanic males. Only 54 per cent of the people killed had guns, and 25 per cent were in visible mental distress. The police in most big American cities have become a paramilitary force, armed and armoured like soldiers. At times of stress they treat their fellow-citizens in the way I have seen American soldiers behave towards suspects in Iraq and Afghanistan – with maximum, unthinking violence. And, like American soldiers, they are very rarely disciplined or punished for it.

Today, America is boiling with resentment and bitterness. No other major country has declined so far, so fast. Under Reagan, Clinton and Obama it was still world-leading, a country to look up to, loved by non-Americans like me. Now its cities are lapsing into violence, while China is taking its place in the outside world.

Survey after survey shows that far fewer foreigners look up to Trump’s America. And even if he is defeated in November, is it really likely that his successor will find an antidote to the poison which has been encouraged to flow into the bloodstream of American society?

John Simpson is the BBC’s world affairs editor

No, Mr President, journalists are not the enemy of the people | The Independent | The Independent

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