He did not. He was talking to people who don't normally vote, who were there because the economy was so bad - telling them he'd fix the economy so they could go back to not caring about politics, they just needed to vote in for him in that election to do it.
So he said, even with your charitable interpretation, that he will introduce changes that severely limit the power of all future governments to the point that his changes could never be reversed or meaningfully diminished? That honestly doesn't sound significantly more respectful of democracy than the reading I understood.
