@aral the Wikipedia article on democracy is clear that elections constitute a "minimalist definition of democracy": https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democracy
A democracy without protection against fascism is an unstable equilibrium: it only works as far as nobody pulls it away from equilibrium.
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