Let’s split the baby. We are a democratic republic, or a republican democracy, take your pick. Something for everyone. Regardless, there is an indisputable fact: Our nation was founded upon liberal Enlightenment principles, unalienable rights, equality.

Thomas Jefferson, the purported founder of the Democratic party wrote that “all men are created equal.”

Abraham Lincoln, the purported founder of the Republican party said that we are “dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.”

I say, “F*ck Ryan Kelley and his ilk.”