@thomasfuchs I'm saying if democracy ended in the US, it wouldn't look like democracy ending when Hitler came to power.
It is extremely difficult to know what constitutes a "free and fair" election, and even more difficult to tell if a particular election meets those criteria. If democracy were to end in the US, it could be a long time before people actually realise this is the case (again, you can look at Russia as an example, although the same is true in many other countries).