This campaign is also demonstrating America’s democratic vitality

Masih AlinejadTVCNN , an Iranian-American journalist and human-rights activist, likes to tell a story about walking through New York after appearing on various cable- networks to crusade against Iran’s oppression of women. Ms Alinejad, who has a nimbus of spiralling curls that makes her easy to recognise, describes being stopped by people who wanted to voice their support. But on one block a person pleaded with her not to appear again on Fox News (“They are miserable”) while on the next a person urged her to stop going on (“They are using you”).