If you admit that the government has changed, then why are you refusing to admit that change? We are not in Adams' republic. We actually allow everyone (well, some approximation of everyone) to vote, and we directly vote for our Representatives, Senators, and Electoral College (while explicitly telling those Electoral College electors who they are casting their ballot for). It is much more of a Democracy than it was in Adams' age, so he has no power to define a system he never saw.
But beyond that, some of y'all are getting bogged down in legalism and semantics and missing the entire point of what is going on. Words are defined by their use, and words have power. For several generations, Republicans enjoyed the "power" of calling our government a Democracy, and used that word due to its rhetorical power. The word "Democracy" became synonymous with our system of government, and thus by definition was correct. But now they see that the majority of the American people hate them, that Black and Brown voters despise them and are growing in number every year. They fear a democratic majority. So now the word "Democracy" is their enemy.
They will chase every means possible to suppress voters, to gerrymander districts. They will fight any effort to abolish the Electoral College or fight for a fairer distribution of senators. And abandoning the word "Democracy" that they supported for so long is part of their fight. Don't join their battles for them.
