TRUMP SUPPORTERS CLAIM AMERICA IS NOT A DEMOCRACY. CNN This Morning: Kasie Hunt & Michael Smerconish

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Komentáře • 70

  • @mikebrown9850
    @mikebrown9850 Před 2 měsíci +19

    Apparently they don’t cover the U.S. Constitution at Columbia School of Journalism 🤡

    • @TBALD66
      @TBALD66 Před měsícem

      Apparently not at your high school either🤡

  • @maryellenbarker1194
    @maryellenbarker1194 Před měsícem +13

    We're a Constitutional Republic. Stunning you wouldn't know that.

    • @TBALD66
      @TBALD66 Před měsícem +2

      The Constitution establishes a federal democratic republic form of government. That is, we have an indivisible union of 50 sovereign States. It is a democracy because people govern themselves. It is representative because people choose elected officials by free and secret ballot.

    • @TBALD66
      @TBALD66 Před měsícem

      The Constitution establishes a federal democratic republic form of government. That is, we have an indivisible union of 50 sovereign States. It is a democracy because people govern themselves. It is representative because people choose elected officials by free and secret ballot.

  • @Mustapha1963
    @Mustapha1963 Před 2 měsíci +19

    It isn't. Never has been.
    The word "democracy" appears nowhere in the Constitution. But a variation of "republic" does. And the Founders were quite familiar with the concept of democracy- and they rejected it for good reason. As Ben Franklin is alleged to have said, "Democracy is two wolves and a sheep voting on what is for dinner."

    • @carolnichols5886
      @carolnichols5886 Před 2 měsíci +1

      Founders ALSO allowed only WHITE MEN owning property to vote. Founders ALSO put a clause in the Constitutional Republic's documents called "Amendments", of which eventually allowed ALL citizens to vote..."We the people, in order to form a MORE PERFECT Union..."

    • @Mustapha1963
      @Mustapha1963 Před 2 měsíci +7

      @@carolnichols5886 And that is relevant exactly how.....?

    • @robtgoldstein
      @robtgoldstein Před 2 měsíci

      @@Mustapha1963 it’s relevant to the point that the founders could not anticipate societal changes 200 years down the road. It’s like you think separate but equal is something good.

    • @Mustapha1963
      @Mustapha1963 Před 2 měsíci +3

      @@robtgoldstein Quite the stretch to go from my correct contention that we are not a "democracy" to your thinking I support Separate But Equal. I can certainly see why you'd attempt deflection, as you know I'm correct.

    • @robtgoldstein
      @robtgoldstein Před 2 měsíci

      @@Mustapha1963 I was responding to your reliance on what “the founders” concept was. As pointed out by someone else, the founders also thought only white property owners should have the right to vote.

  • @jeraldjosey
    @jeraldjosey Před měsícem +6

    By definition, a republic is a representative form of government that is ruled according to a charter, or constitution, and a democracy is a government that is ruled according to the will of the majority. The constitution was developed to help the minority to have a voice that's why we had a revolution

  • @chromecast943
    @chromecast943 Před 2 měsíci +9

    Demoncrate propaganda doesn't work anymore... 😂😂😂

  • @kylekislia5773
    @kylekislia5773 Před 2 měsíci +5

    constitutional federal Republic.

  • @cindywehrman9244
    @cindywehrman9244 Před měsícem +3

    Has Kasie ever said the Pledge of Allegiance? I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the REPUBLIC for which it stands. One nation under God, indivisible with liberty and just for all.

  • @CarlosGarcia-lo4xk
    @CarlosGarcia-lo4xk Před měsícem +1

    Yes, this country is a Republic, but we vote democratic. What makes this country Republic is that we have the senate and people who represent us in Congress. we have This country electoral college the State has the same number of electors as it does Members in its Congressional delegation: one for each Member in the House of Representatives plus two Senators. That's for the liberals who need to know,doesn't understand this country

  • @HarryOsirian
    @HarryOsirian Před měsícem

    " this image STOPPED me" 😂😂😂😂👎🤡👎🤡🤡

  • @OdiousToad
    @OdiousToad Před měsícem

    Smercknish let his "fame " go to his head early on. He was a local and conservative. And he giggles like a girl.

  • @MM12684
    @MM12684 Před 2 měsíci +2

    Her jacket reminds me of the 80’s.

  • @dirktully4324
    @dirktully4324 Před měsícem

    Excuse me Mr. Ignorance, but when you were in school and you recited "The Pledge of Allegiance", did you say "and to the democracy for which it stands" or "to the republic for which it stands"? I'm guessing you said "republic". Which is the correct answer by the way. Have you ever heard of a democratically elected republic? Go back to school or Google it or whatever, but please educate yourself and stop being ignorant.

  • @robtgoldstein
    @robtgoldstein Před 2 měsíci +3

    Smerconish is right. A middle-aged , moderate Democrat would crush Trump in the upcoming election.

    • @Mustapha1963
      @Mustapha1963 Před 2 měsíci +3

      Not difficult to find a middle-aged Democrat; impossible to find a moderate one.

    • @robtgoldstein
      @robtgoldstein Před 2 měsíci +1

      @@Mustapha1963 your claims continue to be ridiculously false. I am moderate as are about 20 of my friends.

    • @KINGMARC0
      @KINGMARC0 Před 2 měsíci

      @@robtgoldstein You think you are moderate thanks to the Overton window. I guarentee you are a typcial leftie nut.

    • @Mustapha1963
      @Mustapha1963 Před 2 měsíci +7

      @@robtgoldstein So tell me of these 'moderate' views you hold and how you can reconcile them with the prevailing extremism of the Democrat Party.

    • @robtgoldstein
      @robtgoldstein Před 2 měsíci

      @@Mustapha1963 I don’t accept your premise, especially in view that the Republican Party has been taking over by actual far right MAGA extremists. They have all of the power today and control what positions they are taling on legislation, etc. There are far left extremists that call themselves Democrats, people like Rashida Tlaib, but they have no power in setting the agenda for the Democrats. Your view is a fantasy. Whatever you project on the Democrats is actually what the Republicans are doing. Let me ask you: is Joe Biden the legitimate President at present and did he win the 2020 election?

  • @geodad4782
    @geodad4782 Před 2 měsíci +2

    I’m of the mind that anyone old enough to collect social security shouldn’t be allowed in politics.

    • @carolnichols5886
      @carolnichols5886 Před 2 měsíci +2

      who told you that you have a mind....😂🤣

    • @geodad4782
      @geodad4782 Před 2 měsíci

      @@carolnichols5886 Someone who amounts to something. You certainly don’t.

    • @OdiousToad
      @OdiousToad Před měsícem +1

      Well that's just stupid.

  • @robtgoldstein
    @robtgoldstein Před 2 měsíci +3

    We are a democratic Republic but the Trump supporters interviewed don’t seem to care about democratic principles.

    • @Mustapha1963
      @Mustapha1963 Před 2 měsíci +8

      You mean like putting your political opponent in jail? Those "democratic principles"?

    • @robtgoldstein
      @robtgoldstein Před 2 měsíci

      @@Mustapha1963 yes, which is what Trump has threatened to do. The b.s. that the DOJ is weaponized against Republicans is belied by the prosecutions of Menendez, Cuellar and Hunter Biden.

    • @joshuaduncan8083
      @joshuaduncan8083 Před 2 měsíci +13

      We are a Constitutional Republic...
      Democracy= majority rule
      Republic= individual rights

    • @Mustapha1963
      @Mustapha1963 Před 2 měsíci

      @@joshuaduncan8083 Exactly.
      Progressives are either too ignorant to know the difference or to arrogant to admit the difference. I'm not sure which one is worse.

    • @annsicura2500
      @annsicura2500 Před 2 měsíci +1

      @@Mustapha1963 as Trump vows revenge?

  • @jeffreywood5207
    @jeffreywood5207 Před 2 měsíci

    Kennedy 2024!!!

  • @kellymartin5475
    @kellymartin5475 Před 2 měsíci +1

    Not a fan but unfortunately he’s right.

  • @afb911
    @afb911 Před měsícem +1

    CNN editing and slicing clips together. Sad bunch of journalists