The opposite of democracy
By Daniel Craig Friend
In 2018, I was the Democratic candidate for the Utah House of Representatives in House District 64 ... I lost.
When I was running, I believed that my ideas were better for Utah than my opponent’s. I still do. But more important than that, I believed that the people of my district had the right to choose their representative freely and fairly ...
... one person who apparently does not believe this is the president of the United States. On Jan. 29, one of his impeachment defense lawyers made an argument that anything a president does that he considers to be “in the national interest” — including gaining an unfair advantage in an upcoming election — is not impeachable conduct ...
https://www.sltrib.com/opinion/commentary/2020/02/01/daniel-craig-friend/
