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Democratically Elected Utah Sen. Mike Lee Says ‘Rank Democracy’ Is Getting in the Way of Prosperity

SO FASCISM, THEN?

Attempting to debate the finer points of difference between a constitutional republic and a direct democracy on Twitter landed the Republican in hot water.

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Senator Mike Lee (R-UT), who was democratically elected into office in 2011, tweeted Thursday that “democracy isn’t the objective” of the United States. In a flailing attempt to debate the finer points of difference between a constitutional republic and a direct democracy, Lee wrote,

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