The Donald

A republic just implies there's a president or something similar and has nothing to do with the term democracy and especially not nameable as used a wrong term. A country can be both a democracy and a republic, one of them (Western European countries with a king or queen) or none (like some Arabic kingdoms). France, Germany (even a federation like the USA) and Italy are just as a republic as the USA is, because they have a democratic chosen president. The first elects their president, both head of state and head of government, via a popular vote elections and no electoral college. Germany via the Bundestag, but their president is purely ceremonial (like the kings/queens in Western European countries), the real power lies with Frau Merkel as chancellor. Italy has a ceremonial president as well, but I don't know their way of electing him/her. China, also a republic, because they have a president and, except from Hong Kong, no elections.

I don't know what you want to say, but elected representatives exist in basically any democracy and the reason for general and local elections, because countries are simply to big to put any individual adult in a room for debating. Again, nothing specifically related to republics and these representation counts for the parliaments and senates, not for a single job election like a president. There it's simple any vote counts for 1/[voting population]*100 = 0.0.....1%, with the winner the person with the most votes. It's even the most simple arrangeable election with only a few candidates to pick. Electoral college and similar representation thourgh one job elections, never heard of such system outside the presidential elections of the USA in other Western democracy's. Why would you even need an extra representative layer for an election which itself is an election for a representative (of all inhabitants). It's like choosing a mayor through a direct election or a local representative for the parliament in a district system, but than for the whole country.

Sorry HarVee, but your comments make no sense to me and that has nothing to do with me being not native in English.

EDIT: to make it more clear: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republicanism, related to the term, not the name claim of the American party.

Can you believe what's been happening? I thought that after the inauguration things would more or less be like they always are. Just with the Repubs attempting and perhaps succeeding in taking away rights from women and poc.
But instead it seems like chaos. Hard to take the constant tweeting of the piece of shit occupying the WH...

I wish I'd started keeping track from the beginning of every weird thing he has done - maybe I'll start today

7/18/2017 - This happened last week but I didn't believe it was true at first -
Trump Wants Border Wall "Transparency"

This was from Monday, the made-in-America event at the WH