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Editorial: Better that voters reject Trumpism than judges do it for them. But Trump makes that case hard to argue

Former President Donald Trump arrives on stage to speak at the Turning Point Action conference as he continues his 2024 presidential campaign on July 15, 2023, in West Palm Beach, Florida.

Excising Donald Trump’s cancerous affect on our democracy should be up to the voters, not the courts. After all, what better way to repudiate someone — or a movement — espousing plainly anti-democratic values and policies than through the ballot box?

Yet Trump keeps making it more difficult to justify even allowing him to run again for president. The latest example hits close to home. Unlike the previous two times Trump ran for the highest office

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