Jonah Goldberg: Is America really a democracy?
by Jonah Goldberg, Tribune Content Agency
Oct 09, 2020
3 minutes
Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah) has been tweeting some interesting things.
During Wednesday night’s vice presidential debate, Lee declared on Twitter, “We’re not a democracy.”
That raised some eyebrows, to say the least. He followed up by tweeting, “Democracy isn’t the objective; liberty, peace, and prospefity [sic] are. We want the human condition to flourish. Rank democracy can thwart that.”
I’ll spare you the Twitter histrionics. Suffice it to say a great many people did not sigh with
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