"America isn't a democracy, it's a republic" is the battle cry of every eighth grade libertarian incel. Always has been, always will be. And their teacher rolls her eyes at him (it's always him) and says "Johnny Virgin is technically correct, class, the worst kind of correct, who here thinks the intent of the framers and everyone who came after them was democracy?" You can say that pi isn't 3.1415whatever (PROTIP: the more digits of pi you have memorized, the less often you will get laid) it's the irrational approximation of the whateverthefuckeulersformulaSTFU but A) no one cares B) we run our lives on approximations C) jackasses that reach back to what the "framers" wanted are every bit as stupid and hated as jackasses that reach back to the goddamn bible for the exact same reasons. The LITERAL definitions of "liberal" and "conservative" are that, given the Winston Churchill quote "...democracy is the worst form of Government except for all those other forms that have been tried from time to time...", the liberal will argue to improve the worst form while the conservative will argue to maximize the utility of the flaws. No, he's a smarmy-ass paste-eating 8th grader that happens to hold higher office. The fucking "framers" thought black people were 2/5ths human so the only reasonable response to any sentence that starts "among the framers" is "STFU>FO."Mike Lee is a constitutional scholar, believe it or not.