[lbo-talk] DeLong on Hayek

[Grant Lee]

> > they were by and large precisely the sort of pedant who insists on
> > reminding you at least once a week that the US is *not* a democracy,
> > but a democratic republic.

It seems to me that US right wingers are the only people to have placed
"democracy" and "republic" on the same conceptual continuum. Nowhere else in
the world would a "democratic republic" be seen as a compromise or a
paradox.