Bush and democracy promotion it’s jarring to hear Republican candidates and politicians speak about democracy with such disdain. But for anyone who lived through the era of George W. The critique that too much democracy will inevitably lead to mob rule and tyranny is as old as Plato-hence the togas-and these men are right that it was very much on the minds of America’s founders. An even more extreme position was staked out, a few days before Lee, by Loren Culp, the long-shot Republican candidate for governor of Washington, who said in a recent interview that “democracy is mob rule” and that “famous Chinese leaders like Mao Zedong and Mikhail Gorbachev loved democracy because democracy is a step toward socialism, which is a step towards communism.”
