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DataRepublican (small r) @DataRepublican - Video: Now watch the logic cascade.
Once "democracy" means liberal values over majority rule, your vote doesn't count as democracy if you voted wrong.
That's why the EU can ban political parties to save democracy.
https://x.com/DataRepublican/status/2047403376057704918

DataRepublican (small r) @DataRepublican - Video: So what values, exactly?
A political scientist at the German Marshall Fund defines the threat. "Illiberalism" is:
"Anti-liberal anti-globalism — rejection of supranational authority, of cosmopolitanism, of universal rights."
THAT is what populism threatens.
https://x.com/DataRepublican/status/2047402717816193455

DataRepublican (small r) @DataRepublican - Video: From the same interview:
"[It's] moral... we are all free and equal. And if we don't start there, democracy is nothing more... than tyranny of the majority...."
This isn't about the Constitution. You need the right VALUES first... or your vote is tyranny.
https://x.com/DataRepublican/status/2047402150020690017

DataRepublican (small r) @DataRepublican - Video: A political theorist explains the rationale:
"All the major liberal institutions... are expressly counter majoritarian... to pump the brakes about excesses of democracy."
You might think: isn't that just the Constitution? Separation of powers? 
No. Keep watching.
https://x.com/DataRepublican/status/2047401620808544650

DataRepublican (small r) @DataRepublican - Video: Think Kagan's an outlier? Here's Brookings senior fellow William Galston at the National Endowment for Democracy's (NED) most prestigious annual lecture.
He explains that "liberal democracy" requires "some abridgement of majoritarianism."
Translation: democracy means limiting what the majority can do.
https://x.com/DataRepublican/status/2047400894132855246

DataRepublican (small r) @DataRepublican - Video: Robert Kagan: 
"I would say there is an argument for saying give me some smoke filled rooms... they weeded out the Donald Trumps of this world."
Backroom deals instead of primaries. Because primaries are how you got Trump... and the old gatekeepers would have stopped him.
https://x.com/DataRepublican/status/2047400638162903456

DataRepublican (small r) @DataRepublican - 🧵 THREAD: You've heard the phrase "OUR DEMOCRACY" a million times. But what exactly is "OUR DEMOCRACY"? 
When they say "democracy," they don't mean a republic. They don't mean consent of the governed. They don't mean your right to choose your own leaders.
They mean a system where "institutions" - NGOs, multilaterals, the permanent bureaucracy - advance a set of values they consider settled: equality, social justice, cosmopolitanism, global governance. These values aren't proposals to be voted on. They're treated as moral prerequisites that must be true *before* your vote counts. 
Despite what they say, they aren't for checks and balances. Checks and balances limit what government can do to you. This limits what you can do to *them*. The brakes are on accountability, not power. The institutions that set the boundaries of acceptable policy have put themselves beyond the reach of the electorate, and they call that arrangement "democracy."
Trump has been an existential threat to this system since the moment he said "drain the swamp" ... because the swamp IS the system. When he threatened those institutions, he didn't threaten the republic. He threatened their immunity from it.
And they said so. On camera. At their own events. In their own words.
As always, patience as I pull together the thread.👇
https://x.com/DataRepublican/status/2047400386391347471

DataRepublican (small r) @DataRepublican - Social media censorship is a key priority for the democracy ecosystem in the name of combating "disinformation."
https://x.com/DataRepublican/status/2047392790213231074
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