If you have ever heard that "we are a republic, not a democracy" mantra from edgy Right-wingers who can't seem to define what they mean by a #republic or a #democracy, you may be wondering where the heck that goofiness came from.
We did too. But we had a tough time finding a decent explanation of its beginnings & its arc through #AmericanHistory.
So we tracked down as many of the phrase's originators as we could and who had regularly used it since.
Super surprise, it has been pretty much consistently a shibboleth of racist and antisemitic xenophobes.
It's so long that we had to break it up into 4 parts.
The first 2 are We Are a Republic, Not a Democracy's travel through US history
The final 2 are context with a lot of "fun facts" about its tie-in with #Confederates, #AmericaFirst, #Nazis, proto & neofascists, segregationists, #JBS, neo-Nazis, the New Right, National Review, "Libertarians," dominionists, and wealthy #conservative lobby groups like the #HeritageFoundation and its ALEC/SNP brethren.
Have at 'er...
https://rant.li/thenonameleague/a-brief-but-bigoted-history-of-were-a-republic-not-a-democracy-1-of-4