Ever since the wave that brought Donald Trump to power, particularly since his challenge to the 2016 election result, American democracy seems to be going from bad to worse. Far from content with this, conservatives are ready to go even further.
«We don't live in a democracy, we live in a constitutional republic,» asserted Cleta Mitchell, a lawyer at the head of a vast network of Republican activists, to justify questioning the outcome of the mid-term elections. A sign that attacks on the electoral system have not ceased in the United States, these remarks indicate a radical position: the people's choice can be overridden when the common good, and therefore that of the Republic, is at stake, particularly when the Left and wokism threaten America. But where does this opposition between republic and democracy come from?
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