“we do not live in a democracy. We live in a republic, which is not a democracy. That distinction matters”

This automatically demonstrates your unfitness to have an adult conversation. Ask any political scientist, and they’ll tell you that “democracy” in common parlance refers to any form of representative government, including federal republics like Germany or the United States, constitutional monarchies line Britain or Japan, and other forms of government that are based on the idea of popular sovereignty and civil liberties.