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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.
Many public debates about democracy-versus-republic, according to Heersink, are thinly masked attempts to alter or preserve a status quo that benefits a party or candidate for at least the short-term.
Out with MAGA. “Fascist for a day” should be Donald Trump’s new campaign slogan. The former president wants Americans to think he’s not that anti-democratic.Despite vowing to use the White ...
In September 2022, Biden delivered his remarks on the Battle for the Soul of our Nation, highlighting the endangerment of the country's equality and democracy. [ 2 ] In August 2017, a piece in the Atlantic was published entitled "We Are Living Through a Battle for the Soul of This Nation," referring to the events of the Unite the Right rally in ...
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 ...
"Go West, young man, and grow up with the country", a phrase often attributed to author and newspaper editor Horace Greeley in favor of westward expansion. "I will not accept if nominated and will not serve if elected", said by William Tecumseh Sherman when asked about a presidential bid during the 1884 presidential election.
“Whatever America hopes to bring to pass in the world must first come to pass in the heart of America.” — Dwight D. Eisenhower "Our democracy must be not only the envy of the world but the ...
The primary focus of Democracy in America is an analysis of why republican representative democracy has succeeded in the United States while failing in so many other places. Tocqueville seeks to apply the functional aspects of democracy in the United States to what he sees as the failings of democracy in his native France.