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Nicholas Kristof

By Nicholas Kristof

Opinion Columnist

How can Americans best defend their democracy from their president?

In my last column, I recounted three lessons from other countries where popular movements have made headway challenging authoritarian rulers. Critics of President Trump have frankly been fairly ineffective — witness his election and the way his approval ratings have risen in some polls lately — but Trump does give us a great deal to work with. He is immensely vulnerable.

Drawing upon these lessons from my last column, here are what I see as the most promising lines of attack for his critics:

Trump is deeply corrupt. All presidents are accused of shady practices: Remember that President Barack Obama was said to have diminished the presidency by wearing a tan suit. But Trump is a felon who........

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