Our republic is quite different than an Islamic Republic such as Iran, because Iran is a dictatorship, which, like the Pyongyang dictatorship, or the Venezuelan republic, merely calls itself a republic.
That’s my point. The definition of a republic (res publica) is an entity that tends to public affairs.
There are different ways of doing that.
The way we’re doing it is more and more through a huge, unelected, administrative state - the “swamp”. Right?