The odds are that American democracy will survive the dismal chaos of Donald J Trump’s presidency. The founding fathers had just such an authoritarian populist in mind when they embedded into the constitution a sophisticated latticework of checks and balances. It is all there — the imperative to constrain the violence of tyranny and faction — in James Madison’s contributions to the Federalist Papers. Since January the Congress and the courts have been doing their jobs.
美國民主制度很可能會安然度過唐納德?特朗普(Donald Trump)任職期間令人郁悶的混亂。當年美國的開國先賢們在憲法中嵌入復雜的制衡框架，就是針對這樣的威權民粹主義者的。這體現在《聯邦黨人文集》(Federalist Papers)收入的詹姆斯?麥迪遜(James Madison)的文稿中——有必要限制專制和派系的暴力。自今年1月以來，美國國會和法院一直在有效行使各自的職能。
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