Op-ed: Hillary Clinton is building a double-digit lead in the U.S. presidential race despite all the hijinks of Bernie Sanders and golfing blunders of Donald Trump.

Pundits, who depend on a race for their jobs, are focusing on a poll that shows the race close. MSNBC has Clinton ahead by only one point when all the third-party candidates are thrown in.

The Washington Post-ABC poll released Sunday shows Clinton leading by 12 points. NBC only mentions its own poll.

What kind of journalism includes only the news that supports its views? Later, they did mention the 12-point lead but played it down.

NBC says the polls are worrisome. Will they continue to say that if Hillary gets a 20-point lead?

The most respected Republican columnist, George Will, had said he would support Clinton. On Sunday he said he was no longer a Republican.

Describing the poll showing a 12-point lead, Politico said: “Respondents overwhelmingly said that Clinton is more qualified to be president and has a better personality and temperament than Trump.”

If Sanders begins supporting Clinton her numbers could rise.

“Support for Donald Trump has plunged as he has alienated fellow Republicans and large majorities of voters overall in the course of a month of self-inflicted controversies, propelling Democrat Hillary Clinton to a double-digit lead nationally,” the Washington Post and ABC said.

It didn’t help that the whole world watched as Trump admitted he didn’t know what Brexit was.

As he did when the recession hit a decade ago Trump saw the decline of the British pound as good news for him.

It meant more people would travel to his Scottish golf course.

For Americans, as Clinton worried, it would mean fewer British tourists in the U.S.

Op-ed: In the 1830s, the French government sent political scientists to the United States to see how the country they helped create was doing.

The assumption was that democracy would be a tremendous success.

What they found and reported on in “Democracy in America” was not all positive.

Alexis-Charles-Henri Clérel de Tocqueville predicted democracy can be just “a scenario in which decisions made by a majority place its interests above those of an individual or minority group, constituting active oppression comparable to that of a tryant or despot,” Wikipedia reports.

The U.S. has a presidential candidate to wants to deport Hispanics and Muslims.

Wikipedia adds of the term: “The term was widely employed in mid-nineteenth-century America in conjunction with a series of moral questions (Sabbath, temperance, racial equality) that gave rise to organized minority groups in American political life.

Lord Acton also used this term, saying:

The one pervading evil of democracy is the tyranny of the majority, or rather of that party, not always the majority, that succeeds, by force or fraud, in carrying elections.

The History of Freedom in Antiquity, 1877

The concept itself was popular with Friedrich Nietzsche and the phrase (in translation) is used at least once in the first sequel to Human, All Too Human (1879).

Ayn Rand wrote that individual rights are not subject to a public vote, and that the political function of rights is precisely to protect minorities from oppression by majorities and "the smallest minority on earth is the individual".

In Herbert Marcuse's 1965 essay "Repressive Tolerance", he said "tolerance is extended to policies, conditions, and modes of behavior which should not be tolerated because they are impeding, if not destroying, the chances of creating an existence without fear and misery" and that "this sort of tolerance strengthens the tyranny of the majority against which authentic liberals protested."

For those cheering the exit of the United Kingdom from the European Union, consider these questions.

Also, consider whether such a powerful decision should be made by a small majority.

The vote was roughly 52 percent to 48 percent, or 17,410,742 to leave and 16,141,241 to stay.

Scotland, which rejected independence two years ago by a bigger margin, feels betrayed; Scotland's  First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said she would push for a vote to allow it to stay in the EU.

Republican presumptive nominee Donald Trump, who was in Scotland, praised the referendum decision to leave the European Union.

Other world leaders have warned an exit could create havoc, and Trump’s endorsement could hurt him in his campaign against former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.

She issued a cautious statement supporting the rights of all sides in the dispute.

Despite non-stop punditry on television and the Internet the fact is no one knows what is going to happen.