Bush, however, did not threaten basic democratic values in the west in the way Trump does.
Undoubtedly the country is advancing on the economic front, yet this contrasts uncomfortably with the erosion of basic democratic values.
Their design, such as it is, is to sweep away basic democratic values and put Europe in lockdown.
Though the neocons like to pretend they're fighting for freedom and liberty, it's obvious they stand far apart from these basic democratic values.
By law, all assistance to Egypt is contingent on the country's meeting certain requirements, including adherence to basic democratic values and the Camp David peace treaty with Israel.
There are ongoing discussions with the United States, the official says, and the cardinal laws do not affect Hungary's commitment to basic democratic values.
Mainstream liberals tell us that when basic democratic values are under threat from ethnic or religious fundamentalists we should unite behind the liberal-democratic agenda, save what can be saved and put aside dreams of more radical social transformation.
Everything else — a sane health-care policy, the dignity of the transgender people who have volunteered to serve their country, a rational environmental policy, a foreign policy that serves basic democratic values, rule of law — is of tertiary interest.
John C. Bonifaz, executive director of the National Voting Rights Institute, a Boston legal center that seeks to curb the role of money in politics, said today that the case demonstrated that "campaign spending limits enhance rather than hinder basic democratic values".
Still, over 400 professors from several Bulgarian universities have signed a declaration supporting the students.One of them, Nelly Ognyanova, media-law professor at Sofia University, says that the students are protesting to protect basic democratic values.
