none of you guys want to believe me that the cons want an end to the republic.

They are fine with "the republic". There are many types of republic and many forms are not free or democratic. The United States is a Federal Republic with a Representative Democracy. What conservatives in the United States want is to make it an Aristocratic Federal Republic without the Representative Democracy part... which would make the United States the same of Feudal Europe with lords ruling each state and united under a federal government ruled by the aristocracies chosen representative and the evangelical church. Conservatism is about rolling back the democracy the swept the world in the wake of the French revolution when feudalism and hereditary rule began it's collapse.

People make the mistake of assuming that republic or federal republic equals democracy or representative democracy. This is similar to Americans making the mistake of assuming the United States is the only nation with a constitution when all contemporary nations have constitutions... it is just the charter of government that outlines the structure of government and even China has one.

A republic can be authoritarian, a dictatorship, or even feudal. Being democratic or free has nothing to do with being a republic. Mainland China is a Unitary Republic without representative democracy. The USSR (soviet union) was a Federal Republic structured similar to the United States but lacking the democratic element. The United States, Brazil, Ethiopia, Germany, India, Pakistan, and a handful of other nations are examples of Federal Republics with Representative Democracy. The UK, Canada, Norway, and Malaysia are examples of Crowned Republics with Representative Democracy.