Somebody ought to tell this degenerate con man that America is a Constitutional Republic.
Democracies always die.
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For those who doubt the movement has moved toward the mainstream, the Tea Party Express will join CNN on Monday night to host a nationally televised forum where eight GOP presidential candidates will vie for tea party support.......
"We're not a protest movement anymore; we've morphed into something else," said Matt Kibbe, president of FreedomWorks, which has helped support tea party groups around the country. "We're a get-out-the-vote machine. We're organizing at the community level." ........
Tea Party Express Co-Chairman Amy Kremer said as the movement continues to mature, tea partiers are increasingly recognizing their activism can change outcomes in Washington. The bloc has become so powerful, she said, that a Republican could not win his or her party's nomination without tea party support.
"We're not going to sit back and just let the Republican party hand us the nominee," she said. "We're going to choose the nominee." .....
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Others of the Founders described it as having "democratic" features, though they "soundly rejected" forming a pure "democracy."
Former President John Quincy Adams, in his "Jubilee" Address in 1839, spoke of ours as a "democratic republic." In another statement in that Address, he also made this strong statement about limitations on the President:
"The President himself is no more than a representative of public opinion at the time of his election; and as public opinion is subject to great and frequent fluctuations, he must accommodate his policy to them; or the people will speedily give him a successor; or either House of Congress will effectually control his power. It is thus, and in no other sense that the Constitution of the United States is democratic - for the government of our country, instead of a Democracy the most simple, is the most complicated government on the face of the globe. - John Quincy Adams