My somewhat-hot take on politics at the moment is that both major political factions hate democracy.
What Labour, the Democrats and likely their counterparts in other countries want is an aristocracy in Aristotle's sense of the word - a society where government is the job of Sensible, Educated People and the rest of us know our place and do as we're told.
Likewise, Reform UK and MAGA and their international counterparts want a quasi-democratic government where "the People" run things, but "the People" exclusively refers to mostly male, mostly Christian white working-class or lower-middle-class conservatives and the problem with the Left is them not letting that group ride roughshod over everyone else.
