Why conservatives are so weird about being a “republic”
4 min readOct 17, 2020
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There’s a segment of conservatives who like to make the argument: “We’re a republic, not a democracy?”
This is, of course, absurd. Let’s look at the meaning of the two words from Websters:
- Democracy: A government in which the supreme power is vested in the people and exercised by them directly or indirectly through a system of representation…