No, I didn't read the article, only the headline.
We didn’t!
With the passing of the 17th Amendment it’s pretty much a mob-ocracy now.
‘At the close of the Constitutional Convention of 1787, Franklin was queried as he left Independence Hall on the final day of deliberation. In the notes of Dr. James McHenry, one of Maryland’s delegates to the Convention, a lady asked Dr. Franklin “Well Doctor what have we got, a republic or a monarchy.” Franklin replied, “A republic . . . if you can keep it.”’
It’s neither.
It’s an oligarchy with trappings of democracy.