“You know, we don’t live in a democracy because a democracy is two wolves and a lamb deciding what’s for dinner. OK? It’s not just majority rule. It’s a constitutional republic. The founders set that up because they followed the biblical admonition of what a civil society is supposed to look like. What’s happened, Alex, …
The whole “Constitutional republic” thing is a old John Bircher talking point from what I can tell.
The only horseshoe theory is “america isn’t a democracy” and the critical difference is the appendment of “and that’s good, actually”.
I hope that there’s a huge blue wave, and it stays blue, just so that I can say to them “America is a Constitutional Democracy, not a Republic”.
That would require actually uprooting small-r republicanism from the government, when they can’t even uproot large-R Republicanism