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For Georgescu's critics, photographs of the weapons cache are the ultimate proof of his danger to the republic.

This figure doesn't include those who were killed serving in the militia of the self-proclaimed Donbas republics which we estimate to be between 21,000 and 23,500 fighters.

"It's clear from all of the writings of our founding fathers and mothers," one constituent noted, "that our great republic was never meant to be ruled by a dictator or a king."

Donald Trump’s destruction of America’s 249-year-old constitutional republic and civic culture follows a historically familiar pattern that includes two especially striking precedents — one ancient, one modern.

Iran became an Islamic republic as the monarchy was overthrown and clerics assumed political control under Ayatollah Khomeini.