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.
美国民主制度很可能会安然度过唐纳德•特朗普(Donald Trump)任职期间令人郁闷的混乱。当年美国的开国先贤们在宪法中嵌入复杂的制衡框架，就是针对这样的威权民粹主义者的。这体现在《联邦党人文集》(Federalist Papers)收入的詹姆斯•麦迪逊(James Madison)的文稿中——有必要限制专制和派系的暴力。自今年1月以来，美国国会和法院一直在有效行使各自的职能。
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