"Beware the demagogues ready to declare a trade war against our friends"

[Jonathan Whatley]

It's rather simple - Republicans and other right-wingers don't like the word democracy because it is closed to the word Democrats and it does not align with their agenda to revert voting and other gains made by non-white & non-male populations.

Once upon a time the basic agreement of Republicans and the right with those gains was demonstrated by actions like nominating George W. Bush on a platform stressing outreach to minorities – especially Latinos who he'd connected with in Texas, and in 2000 he did massive numbers among Arabs, and the Bush nomination soundly rejected Pat Buchanan – and the 2013 RNC plan to return to power by winning over increased minority, women, and youth support. Of course there were disagreements about specifics of the gains, the role of government versus private decisions, etc.

I miss that time.