Donald Trump's gift to America: Realizing we've never been a liberal democracy Is Trump a threat to liberal democracy, as elite voices tell us â or a reminder that we've never gotten there? January 2, 2021 5:06PM (UTC) US President Donald Trump speaks during a ceremony presenting the Presidential Medal of Freedom to wrestler Dan Gable in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC on December 7, 2020. (SAUL LOEB/AFP via Getty Images) --