What's wrong with the 'constitutional republic' defense

[SZonian]

"It’s not a democracy, it’s a constitutional republic.”

More and more, this is the defensive response of Republicans as Democratic voters increasingly begin to question the political system in ways that were unheard of just a year or two ago.

The reality of a gerrymandered system means that Democrats had to beat Republicans by 6 percent to 7 percent in the overall vote to take control of the House of Representatives in this last election and that the Senate is comfortably in the hands of Republicans, who have the advantage of dominating rural states, where voters count far more than those in urban coastal enclaves do.

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http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/opinion/oped/bs-ed-op-1129-constitutional-republic-20181128-story.html