Use the power of the ballot box

Pat Wemstrom, Mount Carroll
Posted 7/9/18

I’ve often been puzzled by the Right’s repeated insistence that “we’re a republic, not a democracy.” Of course, a republic is representative democracy. I used to assume conservatives just resented the term “democratic values” as it might make people think of the Democratic Party.

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