The MAGA crowd, which considers itself to be experts in constitutional law, and likes to assert the the U.S. is not a democracy, because the Constitution puts limits on citizens’ rights.
Democracy is “a form of government in which supreme power is vested in the people and exercised directly by citizens or indirectly through elected representatives.” This is wrongly construed to mean that those in minority positions don’t have rights.
A republic is a form of government in which political power rests with the public. Not really imcompatible with a democracy, is it?
