..."radicality" is not a justification, though. It may be a sign of fortitude.

Time to read the Federalist Papers?

"Democracy is the worst form of government except for all those others that have been tried." - Churchill (funny - but not a ringing endorsement)

Time to read up on republicanism in ancient Rome? Cicero...

James Madison. Visited his beautiful plantation in Montpelier - Piedmont region of Virginia. A passionate, brilliant prophet of the Union. But never freed his slaves. (Neither did Dolly.)

MLK (Martin Luther King Melchizedek).