If the context is "Death of Democracy" while blaming the people for the usurpation of power by Government, which Broke It's Oath the moment it acted Counter to the Articles of Confederation, and equally again when it acted counter to their SELF-IMPOSED-LIMITATIONS of the Constitution while forgetting that the only one at fault is the Government and NONE other, since a Republic means that the Government is Limited regardless of what the majority chose, and since as A Republic, the Government has not lived up to its self-imposed limitations, saying that "democratic principles are still applied regardless" doesn't make the use of the term Democracy or the overall Topic of the article about Democracy, esepcially since by Principle, a republic is NOT a Democracy and the topic is those Limitations. Saying that "The democracy" while TJ means The Republic doesn't make it that he's talking about Mob Rule. The point is that in a Republic the People are guaranteed certain things that no Majority can ever Deprive them of, yet the whole topic here is centred with "If the people allow", by the Moral Fraud that many of the founders were reeking off. Why do you think that it took them 15 years to ratify the Bill of Rights? Especially since as a Republic it cannot exist without those Guarantees of Self Imposed Limitations.