Don’t confirm Donald Trump’s rhetoric by dismissing his supporters

Had Clinton won, Trump most likely would have denied the new president’s legitimacy. Clinton’s supporters should not play that game, writes Jan-Werner Mueller

BARACK OBAMA was right to say that democracy itself was on the ballot in the just-concluded US presidential election.

But, with Donald Trump’s stunning victory over Hillary Clinton, do we now know for certain that a majority of Americans are anti-democratic? How should Clinton voters relate to Trump’s supporters and to the new administration?