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A supporter of Donald Trump in Indianapolis, Indiana, November 2018 President Joe Biden will convene the inaugural Summit for Democracy in early December. His administration intends the gathering to signal the end of the era of democratic backsliding and creeping authoritarianism ushered in by its predecessor and to insist to the world that the United States—with its steadfast moral convictions and values and its exemplary status as a “city upon a hill” after which other countries can model themselves—is back. The summit was one of Biden’s earliest and most concrete foreign policy proposals. He spoke about it when campaigning […]