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Republicans supported Woodrow Wilson's call for American entry into World War I in 1917, complaining only that he was too slow to go to war. Republicans in 1919 opposed his call for entry into the League of Nations. [citation needed] A majority supported the League with reservations; a minority opposed membership on any terms.
Political ambition helped demagoguery take over the Republican Party in just a few years. ... But all good autocrats know that democracy is just a tool to be discarded when it’s no longer useful ...
Jean-Pierre described “MAGA Republicans” — a term Biden has recently come to embrace — as “the most energized part of the Republican Party.” The president views the pro-Trump faction ...
More broadly, in Federalist No. 10, Madison distinguished a democracy from a republic. Jefferson warned that "an elective despotism is not the government we fought for." [80] Madison wrote: In a democracy, the people meet and exercise the government in person; in a republic, they assemble and administer it by their representatives and agents.
Donald Trump's Republicans wrap themselves in the flag and wave the Bible, pretending to be patriots and Christians, but they are neither. Opinion: Republicans hope to demolish democracy that was ...
Today the term republic usually refers to representative democracy with an elected head of state, such as a president, who serves for a limited term; in contrast to states with a hereditary monarch as a head of state, even if these states also are representative democracies, with an elected or appointed head of government such as a prime minister.
OPINION: Jan. 6 was just the warmup act to the GOP's attempts to subvert the will of the people. In statehouses across the country, Republicans are doing everything they can to overturn voters ...
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