Yeah well look a minority elected Trump, an obvious moron, and majorities rejected him twice. I think there's proof of concept right there. Not to mention there are very few examples of dictators being acclaimed by democratic plebiscite, rather examples of parties finagling power https://twitter.com/RichardHanania/status/1380131404424441856

The whole aristocratic republican idea that democracy cant be trusted because it will lead to the rise of some kind of unscrupulous demagogue is probably one of the most discredited notions in political theory, we can see it's almost exactly wrong

Factions have recourse to desperate maneuvers for power, but democratic majorities contain with them many interests that have to be balanced and reconciled

the question is not whether more democracy or less democracy is better, democracy is our form of society and government, and if popular sovereignty isnt given proper expression, it will lead to crises

there's a fundamental contradiction in the conservative notion that the American elites are untrustworthy and unpatriotic also that democratic majorities are too stupid and ill-informed to rule. So who governs then? Let me guess, your faction, somehow unsaddled by these flaws