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It doesn't matter that Sanders wasn't poisoned, if it is true that the mechanisms of power made it impossible for him to win no matter the popular support his ideas had. The result is the same.

As for a constitutional amendment to keep Trump in office, it doesn't matter who is in office if a party with the same policies keeps seizing power without the popular vote. It is just as undemocratic.

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I have to disagree here. Not poisoning political opponents is a major democratic achievement.

If your political opponents are guaranteed to never achieve any power because there is no requirement for primaries, then no it isn't a democratic achievement.

Not poisoning people because they can't do anything is not an achievement, it's just a prudent use of resources.

The US has also already assassinated political opponents, such as Fred Hampton, or various Union leaders.

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