Conor Friedersdorf

Conor Friedersdorf @conor64

@mattyglesias I agree that we often use "democracy" colloquially as a stand-in for *the system we have*. But then, people characterize aspects of the system we have, like the Electoral College or the Senate or unelected judges making rulings, as threats to democracy, so things get confusing. — PolitiTweet.org

Conor Friedersdorf @conor64

@mattyglesias @jbarro Yes, I agree. I am not contesting that point. I took the original Tweet to be making a different point, though I can't say I'm certain what it meant. The defensible point I imagined was something like, — PolitiTweet.org