Ur obviously twisting my words, I'm colloquially referring to our republic by calling it a democracy, if I was for direct democracy, I wouldn't support congress

Ur obviously twisting my words, I'm colloquially referring to our republic by calling it a democracy, if I was for direct democracy, I wouldn't support congress. Whether we have independent agencies is completely orthogonal to whether we are a republic or not. Even if all of these agencies were under the executive, we would still be a republic. And no, I don't support the independent nature of these agencies. The president and/or congress should be able to control these agencies directly. Knocking down the chevron deference is step 1 to eliminating statutory power.