Regarding open primaries, not even defenders of tradition seem to get it. Our founders rejected democracy. Instead they chose the Biblical notion of relational, representative government—republicanism. “The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government, and shall protect each of them against Invasion.” Open primaries and other democrat ploys destroy true, structured relational representation, in favor of unconstitutional free-for-all, power politics and mob rule.