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To: backwoods-engineer

He points out that we of the Tea Party THINK we are some sort of firewall against the evils of democracy, but that in spirit and ideology we actually are just a slowed-down version of it, and of the progs’ march.


32 posted on 07/26/2015 10:27:50 PM PDT by IChing
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To: IChing
He points out that we of the Tea Party THINK we are some sort of firewall against the evils of democracy, but that in spirit and ideology we actually are just a slowed-down version of it, and of the progs’ march.

I wouldn't agree with that at all .... it sounds like the kind of thing e-GOP trolls would tell us, to try to get us to shut up and drop out.

How is constitutionalism evidence of an addiction to majoritarian democracy? American constitutionalists, if they are same, always stipulate to constitutionally-constrained representative democracy. I see no creeping mass-state enthusiasms on the Right.

36 posted on 07/27/2015 1:08:47 AM PDT by lentulusgracchus ("If America was a house , the Left would root for the termites." - Greg Gutfeld)
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