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[zeek]

Originally Posted by ZNPaaneah

"Hitler entered German democratic politics with the explicit agenda of destroying democracy." Crapitalism, Michael Faust

Trump with his attacks on the freedom of the media and the independent judiciary appears to have an implicit agenda of destroying democracy. Of course, several posters here have denied that America is a democracy. So I suppose in their minds there's no democracy to destroy. The idea that the USA is a democratic republic is apparently to complicated for them. It has to be one or the other.

[Ohio]

Originally Posted by zeek

Trump with his attacks on the freedom of the media and the independent judiciary appears to have an implicit agenda of destroying democracy. Of course, several posters here have denied that America is a democracy. So I suppose in their minds there's no democracy to destroy. The idea that the USA is a democratic republic is apparently to complicated for them. It has to be one or the other.

I thought the US was a constitutional republic, run by republicans.

[zeek]

Originally Posted by Ohio

I thought the US was a constitutional republic, run by republicans.

It is. It's also a democracy in the sense of government by the people, exercised through elected representatives.