From Brij Khindaria at The Moderate Voice:
Donald Trump’s triumphs and Bernie Sanders’s successes have opened a can of worms already gnawing at the core of democracy as it is understood and practiced around the world.
So far, the US election looks like a circus trying to entertain rather than a democratic contest of alternatives to structure social, economic and political life in the world’s most influential nation around policies that supporters of each contestant can fight for.
Trump provokes incredulity and some guffaws while Sanders seeds twinges of the heart by evoking dreams of fairness that no nation has ever reached and few social philosophers think attainable.
Each might incite passions and fierce fervor among slices of America’s electorate and some onlookers around the world. But the damage being inflicted to the example and practice of democracy is enormous.