SHAPIRO: The Left Really Doesn’t Understand Why We’re A Republic

On Wednesday’s episode of “The Ben Shapiro Show,” Shapiro dismantles a New York Times columnist’s argument suggesting that, in modern times, there is no difference between a republic and a democracy. Video and partial transcript below:

So Jamelle Bouie, who is not a very good columnist, over [at] The New York Times. He — I enjoy some of his work. I will say that I don’t think that he thinks through a lot of his own ideas. He has an opinion piece in The New York Times suggesting that Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez understands democracy better than Republicans do — which is false. AOC understands literally nothing except for using Instagram better than Republicans do and maybe dancing on rooftops. But that is a matter of opinion. Jamelle Bouie says,