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By A. Boumezrag – To say that Trump is a “product” of American democracy is not an insult. It’s a diagnosis. And as an old sage from Algiers would say: the product always reveals the quality of the mill. Since its birth in the 18th century, American democracy has rested on a fundamental contradiction: it is both universalist in its rhetoric and deeply territorial in its practice. It promises freedom to the whole world, but it votes first and for…