Having a Republican form of gov’t isn’t merely a conservative platform. Look at the Founder’s comments and you will see an overt fear of ‘the tryanny of the majority’.
THIS is why progressives have worked so hard to interchange the meanings of these words: democracy and republic.
I cringe everytime I hear America referred to as a democracy. We are a REPUBLIC and for good reason.
Indeed, that Congress has already acted and catered to the idea that they are a democratic body is a large part of our current problem. Why bother respecting the Constitution if you can just get 51% of the vote?
The difference between the democracy and the republic is that the later is bound by a constitution.
Republic requires a Constitution that sets limits to the power. Republic does not require senators - our Constitution requires Senators.
The US Constitution sets a Congress - in the congress the majority rules (democracy). The laws produced by the Congress have to obey the Constitution (Republic).
Republic does not ask for politicians, but for document that sets limits and rules for the powers.
It is OK to say that my Virtual Congress is unconstitutional today. But there is no problem for it to be part of a future Republic.