The Covington Fiasco Is a Perfect Example of Why the Founders Distrusted Democracy
Jarrett Stepman January 22, 2019
In the shallow world of modernity, we throw around a word like “democracy†as a stand-in for “things that I like.â€
Many in popular culture and elite institutions promote democracy as a cure for all that ails us—an unquestioned and unqualified blessing.
Still others turn on a dime and hope for its demise as soon as it produces outcomes they don’t like.
While democracy often plays a good and necessary role in a self-governing society, we have lost the healthy skepticism of its worst excesses that the Founding Fathers understood when they established the governing institutions of the United States.
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