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It doesn’t take a political science expert to realize that the America Trump has in mind can’t coexist with democracy— and that Trump’s most committed voters don’t actually want to ...
CNN’s John Avlon writes that new House Speaker Mike Johnson’s words that “we don’t live in a democracy” show there’s a trend among right-wing leaders to dismiss a majoritarian democracy.
He chose “republic,” not “democracy.” There is a difference. Democracy is government by the majority, something we could do if everyone voted on the internet.
The idea that America is "a republic, not a democracy" has been a recurring theme in American Republicanism since the early 20th century. It declared that not only is majoritarian "pure" democracy a form of tyranny (unjust and unstable) but that democracy, in general, is a distinct form of government from republicanism and that the United ...
The meme is in the form of a map of the U.S. and Canada which depicts a new hypothetical national border between the two countries. The "blue states" from the 2004 election (New England, the Mid-Atlantic states, the Pacific coast, and the Great Lakes states of Illinois, Michigan, Minnesota, and Wisconsin) have been merged with Canada to form a single contiguous nation of more than 170 million ...
Shortly after the Republicans gained control of the House in the U.S. midterm election of 2010, liberals and Democrats repurposed the meme to blame Obama satirically for disparate societal or economic ills. [2] [3] One notable [4] example came in 2012, when a picture of a man spilling food with the "Thanks Obama" caption was popular.
Kamala Harris could not have been more different. She reached out to centrist voters and ran a good campaign with a clear message about defending American democracy. Having someone deliver that ...
A photograph of Crowder seated behind a sign in February 2018 reading "Male Privilege is a Myth | Change My Mind" outside the Texas Christian University campus became an Internet meme. [27] [28] [29] Variations of the meme often feature humorously controversial statements in place of "Male Privilege is a Myth", such as "Pineapple goes on pizza ...