Liberals say that Trump has ruined the 250th anniversary of our democracy. They're wrong—Trump has ruined the 250th anniversary of our republic.
— NYTPitchbot (@DougJBalloon) June 29, 2026
I think it's important to start with 'republic' bc the Framers cite Monty (e.g., Federalist 47), the Guarantee clause (ArtIVsec4), Ben Franklin ("a Republic if you can not fuck it up"), etc. https://t.co/zxank3ua5k
— NTodd - Antifa IT Support 🇺🇦🐸 (@ntoddpax) June 28, 2026
Saw the Pitchbot's post today, and while I'm not gonna recapitulate everything, I did want to capture my little threaded response to Machine Pun Kelly (who is not wrong per se).
The bottom line, as usual, is that 'democracy' and 'republic' are not mutually exclusive. MPK argues from the former, but I think the latter is a more correct starting point, as I lay out sparsely on Twitter.
When the We're A Republic crowd gets going, it's in large part because the word 'democracy' does not appear in the Constitution (you know how they are about that), and the Framers really disliked like one flavor of it (direct "mob rule" democracy, as opposed to our representative form). From where I sit, everything thus devolves from Montesquieu's distinctions.
Either way, we're both, duh. Anybody who says otherwise is an aristocrat, and if they're MAGA, that really means a monarchist (ironic, perhaps, given the election of 1800).
Selah.
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