Although I understand the worry, I am getting more and more annoying with people painting all populist leaders as anti-democratic, even when they are trying to

Although I understand the worry, I am getting more and more annoying with people painting all populist leaders as anti-democratic, even when they are trying to make institutions more democratic. I am from Brazil, and media (both local and international) loves to portray him as some sort of conservative dictator. Except he been trying to do the opposite for a while now, for example people called him "genocidal" because he opposed cities issuing lockdown orders. Thing is, in our constitution only the president can issue lockdown, and only after being reviewed by three different oversight groups, because we had a nasty dicatorship during cold war, our new constituion was written deliberately to make really hard to create a new dictatorship, yet our supreme court is happily ignoring a lot of parts of our constitution to give the government dicatorship powers, and the president is opposing it, but every time he does so, people say he, is the dictator. Another case: population voted against arms control in a country-wide vote around 2003, government back then issued arms control anyway (they made it legal to have weapons if you had a license, and then stopped giving licenses, thus effectively banning weapons against the wishes of the population), Bolsonaro more than once talked about it, and tried to undo the ban and follow what was voted for, again people kept saying that this was him being a dictator. Our supreme court been under heavy criticism lately for various reasons, and they reacted badly (for example one judge called police on a guy that criticized him in person on an airplane and got him arrested), the media is portraying this as the president trying to get rid of the supreme court and have more power for himself, and the supreme court as democratic heroes, but that is obviously not what is going on, the supreme court for example breached a fundamental principle of democracy recently when they started a case themselves, becoming court+pŕosecutors at same time, something that is NOT supposed to ever happen, they also are trying to institute a "Fake News" law, something that obviously goes against our constitution that guarantees free speech.