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If your feelings weren't mixed you either don't value human life or you don't value democracy.
Edit: a bystander was killed and so was the 20 year old gunman. This is the human life I'm referring to.
Paradox of tolerance: Trump will end democracy and even more lives.
No, the person most likely to end democracy will advocate rolling back freedoms to 'preserve' it, or to punish the wicked people that are considered their political enemies. The most likely person won't be a Democrat, but will almost certainly be a leftist that starts their own populist political party
Fascism has always been a right wing ideology. While leftists have made some terrible mistakes, you shouldn't pretend they are the only or main threat to democracy.