Democracy is more or less "mob rule" by definition. Fortunately, it's rare to see democracy implemented in any group with more people than you can fit around a

Democracy is more or less "mob rule" by definition. Fortunately, it's rare to see democracy implemented in any group with more people than you can fit around a table. To protect against mob rule, we instead use a democratically elected republic as a specific check against emotional and easily influenced mob opinion.