republic
/rĭ-pŭb′lĭk/
noun
- A political order whose head of state is not a monarch and in modern times is usually a president.
- A nation that has such a political order.
- A political order in which the supreme power lies in a body of citizens who are entitled to vote for officers and representatives responsible to them.
Xanthrax is using definition 3 while others are using 1. Should have been easy to resolve without vitriol. But maybe you "know what [he's] doing" and are "just putting that out there"?
He usually pillories Trump, so it would be remarkable if he didn't go after him. Since there are no reports that he apologized to Kirk's family or had to donate money to TPUSA, I'm guessing he's coming back on his own terms here.