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The 1992 Republican Party platform adopted support for continuing to exclude homosexuals from the military as a matter of good order and discipline. [101] The support for the exclusion of homosexuals from military service would remain in the Republican Party platform until the 2012 Republican Party platform, which removed that language from it ...
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 ...
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 ...
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.
Roberts, who wrote the Project 2025 forward, says the current political system is stacked against Republicans and Project 2025 will work to “free the next Republican president.”
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.
A Reuters/Ipsos poll also found that 60 percent of Republicans “don't think Trump's MAGA movement represents the majority of the party”