“The Justice Department will never stop working to defend the democracy to which all Americans are entitled,” Attorney General Merrick Garland recently told reporters after the Proud Boys conviction.
The United States is not a democracy and was never intended to be a democracy.
The United States is a republic!
Most of the Founding Fathers considered democracy a dangerous extreme to be avoided.
Alexander Hamilton disputed that “pure democracy would be the most perfect government.” He warned, “Experience has proved that no position in politics is more false than this. The ancient democracies … never possessed one feature of good government. Their very character was tyranny; their figure, deformity.”
John Adams once wrote, echoing this sentiment, “There was never a democracy yet that did not commit suicide.”
If the Justice Department feels we are entitled to a democracy, then we are well on our way to suicide.
Rob Fusia
New Kensington