Joe Biden a win for American democracy: Daily Star Editor, Asia


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DHAKA (THE DAILY STAR/ASIA NEWS NETWORK) - Americans exercised their democratic right and elected Donald Trump as president in 2016. Four years later, they exercised the same right again and corrected what had turned out to be a disastrous mistake. In the interim, they suffered for their mistake but did not disrupt the system. They waited for four years and then used democracy to "right" the wrong. There are three important lessons here. One, the American people did not lose faith in democracy and in the electoral system. Two, the self-correction that they eventually brought about could only have happened...