> ... aren't actually democracies. Austria, for example, is a Republic "republic" and "democracy" are in no way mutually exclusive terms. On the contrary, the

> ... aren't actually democracies. Austria, for example, is a Republic "republic" and "democracy" are in no way mutually exclusive terms. On the contrary, the overlap very often. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republic https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republic for a definition.