You can look at the work of Page and Gilens, who have shown that the US is not democratic in any meaningful sense. That is, if you know that policy A is prefer

You can look at the work of Page and Gilens, who have shown that the US is not democratic in any meaningful sense. That is, if you know that policy A is preferred over B by 95% of the citizens of the USA (an incredible supermajority), that gives you no information about whether A or B will be implemented by the government. Has no predictive value. But if I provide the additional information that B is preferred over A by a majority of US elites, then now you can predict whether A or B will be implemented: B will be implemented, most likely. That situation is the current state of affairs in the US, and it shouldn't be. The system is broken.