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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...
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