Kent Dean: Mike Lee is the most anti-democratic and ideologically extreme member of the Senate.
Sen. Mike Lee makes a few comments early in the evening, before the election returns, at his election party at Awaken Event Center, onTuesday, June 28, 2022.In 2015, Michael Barber, an assistant professor of political science at Brigham Young University, conducted a study on political ideologies in the U.S. Senate . According to Barber, Sen. Mike Lee was the most “ideologically extreme” senator of the 113th Congress and the most extreme U.S. Senator ever elected in Utah’s history.
“We’re not a democracy. The word democracy appears nowhere in the Constitution, perhaps because our form of government is not a democracy. It’s a constitutional republic.” The Founding Fathers did have concerns about what they called a “pure” or direct democracy as practiced by ancient societies and what that could mean for minority rights. But that’s not what we mean by democracy today. Concerns about minority rights were the primary reason for the development of the Bill of Rights.
It is true that the word “democracy” is not in the text of the Constitution. Neither are the words “constitutional republic” as championed in Lee’s tweet. But it should be obvious even to Lee that the government architecture detailed in the Constitution, which begins with the words, “We the People,” is a democratic government; that is, a government that is legitimized by its citizens. Lee appears to have a sophomoric understanding of democracy.
Lee claims that he was not involved in trying to overturn the 2020 presidential election results. Yet, text messages from Lee to White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows demonstrate Lee working towards alternative electors in swing states to overturn the will of the people. Lee’s public explanation of these texts after they became public differ from his earlier narrative. It seems Lee failed a real test to prove his unqualified allegiance to the Constitution.
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