None Dare Call It A Republic
I & I Editorial Board
October 16, 2025
How many times have we heard over the last decade that Donald Trump was a threat to democracy? That we were going to lose our democracy if he isn’t restrained (and maybe even eliminated)? That our democracy is in peril because Trump and his supporters are fascists, Nazis, and worse, if anything can be?
The Democrats and their media allies hammer the term far beyond the point of absurdity. What is their obsession with “democracy,” a word that appears neither in the Declaration of Independence nor in the Constitution?
Because, as has been pointed out many times, but clearly not enough, the U.S. is not a democracy.
Our nation is a republic. The Constitution guarantees in Article IV to “every state in this union a republican form of government.” The founders were skeptical of democracies. James Madison called democracy “the most vile form of government.”
“Democracies,” he said, “have ever been spectacles of turbulence and contention; have ever been found incompatible with the personal security or the rights of property, and have in general been as short in their lives as they have been violent in their deaths.”
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