"Democracy" is one of those funny words.  In one sense, it's the flag under which many have marched to defend our way of life overseas and our rights at home.  In another, it's an over-used word that's not really true:  In other words, a lie.

When our soldiers come home and ask their government, "So, where's our democracy?"  or when those fighting for their rights on the domestic front find themselves wondering the same thing, they're told:  "We're not a democracy; we're a republic."

We're actually a constitutionally limited representative democratic republic, to be exact.  It means, we elect representatives to make decisions in our name.  We all know how this has turned out:  Those "representatives" take our votes and sell them to the highest bidder in a big money game to keep getting elected, making decisions mainly in favor of the, well, money.

Trump didn't invent it; he's just capitalizing on it by making our government into a reality show.