Oh look - oligarchic apologetics in a periodical named in honor of the country’s original oligarchists.

An article from the federalist? You might as well suck off dick cheny and the last koch brother.

Leave some room in your asshole for steve bannon.

Because democracy is an abstract name for a system and republic is the more concrete result of that system, democracy is frequently used when the emphasis is on the system itself. We could say that democracy is to republic as monarchyis to kingdom.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/grammar/democracy-and-republic