John Adams used the word representative democracy but I'm sure you'd discount his claim to American-ness just as you question your fellow countrymen who live in the state of California. What's so completely disgusting about these Trump fascists is how swiftly they abandon their own countrymen, due to skin color or what state they live in, and run into the arms of a foreign dictator. These craven people sully what is great about America's democracy, are barely worthy of availing themselves of the rights they so vehemently seek to deny their own countrymen. These are the lowest kind of people, hooligans and traitors.