related_tweet: this isn't super surprising given that the united states has the oldest constitutional democracy on earth while germany had been ruled by the kaiser just fifteen years earlier.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  we have a lot more (small-r)republican institutions to dismantle.