About 90% of the time that I see people try to give separate definitions for “republic” and “democracy” it’s not sincere at all - it’s part of a decades-long effort to oppose democracy in the US while pretending to align with US political culture, which has always been strongly pro-democracy.1
Well, either that or it’s people who have been mis-educated by…
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