"In other words, 'It's a republic, not a democracy' reflects a persistent strain of conservative thinking that is focused less on vindicating individual rights than on protecting oligarchies of privilege, whether they be national, regional, or local. That many of the same people who cite this slogan are among the first to complain about liberal 'activist judges' who interfere with 'democracy' when conservatives are in the ascendancy just exposes the game for its hypocrisy."
Ed Kilgore at New York explains why conservatives fetishize the word "republic."
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