Does the current USA smell democratic to you? Are the powers there working or just even more generalised corruption?
A sitting US member of the house had their house and offices raided just the other day.
He is also very directly going after journalists.
Freedom is speech is very much not guaranteed in the US.
He literally encouraged a coup and then pardoned people who took part. That's not hyperbole. He instructed Pence to coup, who refused, then he instructed his followers to march down there. A literal coup.
The states had good reasons to remove him from their ballots.
Now he's harassing state workers to remove Americans from voting rolls. Classic coup/anti-democratic stuff. Textbook.