With all due respect to President Adams, the “avarice, ambition, revenge and licentiousness” of the GOPe ain’t doing much for the country right now!
Williamson confuses respect for due process and the law with the unbridled power of the elite to decide policy without answering to the people.
The latter must be rejected as firmly as the unbridled passions of the mob. If a republic is not a democracy than neither is it an aristocracy of the rich and powerful few to whom the political class feels obliged to cater.