I generally agree with you—the whole trope about “real Americans” being cowboys and farmers, and small towns (not NYC?!) being “real America” sickens me. But Madison purposely designed our Republic to protect minorities against a ‘tyranny of the majority’—the flaw of pure democracies.
However, I’ll also say that the current regime has exposed all the flaws in Madison’s design and we should be thinking about fixing them and establishing the Second Republic. (Pie in the sky hopes, yes. I don’t know how we’d ever get a new Constitution ratified in the age of disinformation.)
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