Marakesh 𓅦 on Nostr: This should settle it: the U.S. was a republic that morphed over time to become a ...

This should settle it: the U.S. was a republic that morphed over time to become a democratic republic.

https://medium.com/democracys-sisyphus/is-the-united-states-a-democracy-or-a-republic-ff6691242d11

quoting nevent1q…lrzr

Even the Founders were opposed to democracy, but somehow Jefferson's party became called the "Democrats," or "Democratic-Republicans" (maybe we should call today's uniparty that), and was sometimes referred to as "the Democracy."

And today's Democrats seem to want to replace the idea of the US being a republic with the idea that it is a democracy, which is interesting given what Hoppe says about democracy's connection to communism...