Republics are democracies. They're just not direct democracies.

This might also help: https://mises.org/wire/stop-saying-were-republic-not-democra...

In this context, "democracy" is used in the broad sense, meaning the codified national value of self-government by the population. The distinction that there are elected representatives rather than direct votes isn't relevant.

If we are being needlessly pedantic, the traditional US definition of a "republic" is a democracy, but just not a direct democracy (I'm not aware of any modern countries that are), which I suspect is what you were trying to point out:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republic#United_States

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Representative_democracy

Even more Article 4, Section 4 of the constitution:

>The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government

https://constitutioncenter.org/interactive-constitution/inte...