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Not the same. Lenin believed in a democracy of not more than 8 or so people. The bolsheviks won the Soviet elections and Lenin still staged a coup.

The American Constitution is an indirect democracy. Direct at the local level, indirect at the Federal level (though eventually by statute and amendment it became direct for Congress).

> As we saw in 2016, this check failed.

Nonsense. That "failure mode" was designed for. It has happened a few times. Working as expected.



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