Darby
Epochal Historian
He did?!Actually he added in the fixes needed to run an actual democracy.
I read his missive and saw a President who is advised by a series of "specialists". We generally call that a dictatorship, not a democracy. About 236 years ago we in the US decided that we actually didn't want a king - a "President advised by specialists".
When it is working right I kind of like the idea of Constitutionally limited power, checks-and-balances and a republican form of government where the federal government is occassionally reminded that the people created the states and the states created the federal government - not the other way around.