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Johnson: We're Not A Democracy, We're A "Biblical" Republic And Separation Of Church And State Isn't Real (www.joemygod.com)
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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The whole "Constitutional republic" thing is a old John Bircher talking point from what I can tell.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The only horseshoe theory is "america isn't a democracy" and the critical difference is the appendment of "and that's good, actually".

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I hope that there's a huge blue wave, and it stays blue, just so that I can say to them "America is a Constitutional Democracy, not a Republic".

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

That would require actually uprooting small-r republicanism from the government, when they can't even uproot large-R Republicanism