Well it could be worse because in the end it's still a democracy, for how long that's yet to be seen.
Look at Russia, they jumped off a cliff to protect a regime from democracy, and people are checked out - they take no accountability and still act confused of why Russia is being despised - all while accelerating economic and demographic decline with more than one million casualties in a special 3 day military operation.
You can't make this up.
Russia is a de-jure democracy, just like the US. In fact I'm not sure what difference there is between them.
Tell that to the people of Alabama who just had their primary election results cancelled