I guess almost nobody wants to 'remove democracy' even in the least democratic places. A more plausible explanation here would be indifference. Maybe they don'

I guess almost nobody wants to 'remove democracy' even in the least democratic places. A more plausible explanation here would be indifference. Maybe they don't want to remove democracy, but not exactly trying to uphold it over everything else either. Maybe seeing your cult of personality hero in office, or your religion or your flavour of boogieman (=not losing the country to commies kind of thinking) has ultimately higher priority than keeping the democracy alive. I'm not saying that's what is happening, I'm just saying I can see how masses can smother democracy without specifically having the intention to kill it. disclaimer: non-US, my opinion on anything US would be at best inaccurate.