I read the article. I merely reject its premise, and it's blinkered perspective. The authors think the main threat to democracy is a strongman dictator, and do

I read the article. I merely reject its premise, and it's blinkered perspective. The authors think the main threat to democracy is a strongman dictator, and do not distinguish appearance from substance. Just because a country isn't headed by a Generalisimo that's jailing his opponents, doesn't mean the people's will isn't getting trampled. It's just done by a large and boring bureaucracy and business interests, without any one obvious culprit. But because that bureaucracy was doing what the authors want, they confuse it (or conflate it) with democracy.