David Burns: Mike Lee still doesn’t like democracy
Just before the election, I wrote a commentary for The Salt Lake Tribune titled, “Why is Mike Lee afraid of democracy?” In that piece, I responded to Lee’s now-infamous “we’re not a democracy” pair of tweets. I was, it turned out, merely one in a choir of responders, because, as the news website Vox intoned with a high degree of understatement, “It’s not often that you see a U.S. senator declare that ‘we’re not a democracy,’ let a
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