Letter

In response to Is this the beginning of the end for US democracy?

How can something that has never existed end?

I totally understand Amy’s concern but I think it is based upon an assumption that doesn’t accord with historical fact.

The truth is, the framers of the US Constitution were not creating a democracy. They were very clear that they were creating a republic. They deliberately wrote that constitution to prevent democracy, but to create an image that could be sold as democracy.

All that has really happened under the Orange Donald is that any pretence of democracy has now been utterly eliminated.

— Les Macdonald from Balmain NSW 2041