Trump is the apotheosis of representative democracy. He can triumph only because of a system that lets people, no matter how stupid and ignorant, vote. If Trump dies before he gets re-elected, all that will happen is a less infantile and less stupid person will follow in his footsteps and institute an even more ruthless regime. The Republican Party is now an overt theo-fascist party, and 74 million Republican-voting dupes will ensure the USA is doomed. All thanks to representative democracy. Because spineless halfwits like Trump and McConnell could never in a million years mount a coup d'etat. Instead, we hand them power by quasi-legitimate means: the ballot box.