Commentary: Yes, Sen. Lee, America is, in fact, a democracy

Late Wednesday night and into the early hours of Thursday morning, Utah Sen. Mike Lee released a series of bizarre tweets, including one claiming that “We’re not a democracy.”We’re not a democracy.— Mike Lee (@SenMikeLee) October 8, 2020 This invokes, of course, the hackneyed (and, some would say, silly) argument: Is the United States a republic or a democracy?As most reasonable people readily acknowledge, it is both. It is a representative democracy. Democracy is t