Democracy is flourishing when free elections occur. Hitler was democratically elected.
Democracy is not everything that is good about a state. Modern liberal democracies in Europe and North America also have traditions of rule of law, divisions of power, individual rights, collective rights, property protection, public education and welfare, etc., etc.
Fareed Zakaria has written very interesting things about illiberal democracies and why democracies sometimes produce populists or repressive governments.
Democracy is not everything that is good about a state. Modern liberal democracies in Europe and North America also have traditions of rule of law, divisions of power, individual rights, collective rights, property protection, public education and welfare, etc., etc.
Fareed Zakaria has written very interesting things about illiberal democracies and why democracies sometimes produce populists or repressive governments.