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Plato would have said that democracies are a degrading form of government associated with revolutionary upheaval that sets the stage for the worst form of governance: tyranny, or, in modern parlance, vanguards of the proletariat. Aristotle would have said that democracies are debased forms of republic. The framers of the US Constitution agreed. So, why does the GOPe insist on suppressing the term "republic" and promote the term "democracy"? The answer lies somewhere between being either a controlled opposition or the non-violent main actors in a dialectical churn that pivots off of constructed violent splinters.

Stop the virtue signaling, dude. He refused to obey lawful orders from the Commander in Chief, exercising his Article II powers within the lawful chain of command.

By definition, definitions that go back to the beginning of the use of the term democracy, δημοκρατια, and reflect the Marxist use of the term, for example, Book VIII of Plato's Republic: “Yes," he said, 'this is the establishment of democracy, whether it comes into being by arms or by others’ withdrawing due to fear." “Just as a sickly body needs only a slight push from outside to become ill, and sometimes even without any external influence becomes divided by factions within itself, so too doesn’t a city that is in the same kind of condition as that body, on a small pretext – men brought in as allies from outside, from a city under oligarchy, by the members of one party, from a city under democracy by the members of the other – fall sick and do battle with itself, and sometimes even without any external influence become divided by faction?” As noted above, even bringing immigrant muscle. This is why the framers of the Constitution took great effort to provide safeguards that kept the Republic from devolving into a democracy. As such, this is not a disagreement; you are simply wrong along lines that conform to active measures that support the democracy narrative.

For those who think there's a need to look deeper, once the assertions are validated, no further inquiry is required.