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This is a straight up coup (twitter.com)
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– majorpribluda 15 points ago +15 / -0

Squeaky effete voice: "He has ... attempted to throttle democracy..."

Yes. Exactly. The whole point of a Republic is to throttle democracy. Democracy is literally mob rule with a paper trail. In a democracy, 50%+1 on any given day get their way. In a Republic, the rights of the minority are protected.

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– RARA2 3 points ago +3 / -0

Exactly. The founding fathers absolutely HATED pure democracy.

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