President Joe Biden makes no speech without mentioning the importance of democracy in our nation.

We would like to believe this comes from deep ideals about human liberty lodged within our president.

But more accurate is that Biden, a politician all his adult life, is defined by just that -- politics. No word, no act emanates from our president that does not emerge from some political calculation.

In the case of the ongoing reminders about the importance of democracy, the subliminal message Biden wishes to convey is to always remind of the Jan. 6, 2021, assault on the Capitol and to brand Donald Trump as an anti-democratic autocrat.

But let's go beyond this and examine Biden's premise about democracy itself.

In Biden's latest speech on Memorial Day, he said, "Our democracy is more than just a system of government. It is the very soul of America."

Hanging on a wall in my offices in Washington, D.C., is a picture of Booker T. Washington, with his........

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