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A Republic, Not An Empire is a 1999 book by American political figure and presidential candidate Patrick J. Buchanan. The work argues that the United States has become too involved in foreign affairs, and should refrain from interventionism, both military and diplomatic, in favor of focusing on domestic issues.
Democracy. Free and fair elections. ... 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 ...
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 ...
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.
The Liberty Amendments: Restoring the American Republic is a book by the American talk radio host and lawyer Mark Levin, published in 2013. [1] In it, Levin lays out and makes a case for eleven Constitutional amendments which he believes would restore the Constitution’s chief components: federalism, republicanism, and limited government.
Some also believe Trump was divinely chosen to save white Christian America. In their 2022 book, The Flag and the Cross: White Christian Nationalism and the Threat to American Democracy, Gorski and co-author Samuel Perry, a professor of Sociology at the University of Oklahoma, wrote that white Christian nationalists share a set of common anti ...
In Federalist No. 10, James Madison rejected "pure democracy" in favour of representative democracy, which he called "a republic". [96] There were similar debates in many other democratizing nations. [97] In contemporary usage, the term democracy refers to a government chosen by the people, whether it is direct or representative. [98]
Suicide of the West: How the Rebirth of Tribalism, Populism, Nationalism, and Identity Politics Is Destroying American Democracy is a book by conservative columnist Jonah Goldberg. [ 1 ] The book warns against illiberal forms of populism and argues that the West is increasingly facing the risk of decline.