If you don’t know the difference I probably can’t help you.I see this repeated a lot on this forum. Ive never really understood this point of view and what those stating it are getting at.
It usually gets stated when some undemocratic action needs to be justified. Americans vote on everything. And they value their vote. People who vote are the democratic process.
And that might be the key word. Republic might be the title but democracy is the process. You cant have one without the other. It is nonsense to suggest otherwise.
America is a ollection of quasi independent states. But they arent really. The civil war squashed that notion. ALabama eont unilaterally invade Canada.
People who deny democracy never have a better alternative. Nor can they point to a successful society that has rejected democracy.
The process is the thing not the title.
So where in this republic is democracy not the key ingredient ?