"But it's still a democracy, not a totalitarian regime."
IMHO, most of countries are authoritarian regimes, like USA.
There are only a few countries, who isn't authoritarian. They are
totalitarian, like North Korea.
USA is not democracy. Because the true democracy is only when a nurse can
command army along with the generals, for example.
Or when any ignoramus have the same authority in physics as a professor of
physics. Democratic country will not survive even one week, because the true
democracy is sheer idiocy, IMHO.