Bloomberg is a bigger threat to democracy than Trump

Justin Ward
9 min readFeb 19, 2020
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Donald Trump is a threat to American democracy. It’s hard to disagree with that statement. However, too often we get hung up his tin-pot dictator theatrics while ignoring some of the less obvious side-effects of his presidency. A lot of the focus is on specific things that he has done to debase the credibility of the office or ways in which he has violated any number of sacrosanct values. But less…

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Justin Ward

Journalist and activist. Founder and co-chair of DivestSPD. Bylines at SPLC, The Baffler, GEN, USA Today. Follow on Twitter: @justwardoctrine, @DivestSPD