Democracy: 2 wolves and sheep have vote on lunch, but sheep is protected by bill of rights, so they can’t eat him.
Demoncracy: 2 wolves and sheep have vote on lunch, and eat the sheep. Then they eat each other.
Yes, the Bill of Rights. And ours was a Republic which filtered the rampant emotions of the mob and gave us continuity. Alas, Harvard professors versed in 19th Century German Idealism (Kant, Hegel, Marx)thought they were intellectually superior to the Founders and the intellectual heritage of Locke, et al. Harvard lad Teddy Roosevelt thought he was very clever; and Woodrow Wilson thought he should be Benevolent Dictator for Life.
Progressivism is NOT American. It’s Continental European and we are losing the battle, having won the wars—all of them.