As if there's anything remotely democratic about the system he would be purging. If you told the Athenians, let alone the founding fathers, that an imperialistic police state which

• imprisoned and tortured its own people in military black sites,
• spent billions on foreign aid to nations that hate us while letting its own people starve, and
• locked up huge portions of its population for decades with no hope of ever living a normal life

was a "democracy", they'd think you were mocking them.

As if there's anything remotely democratic about the system he would be purging. If you told the Athenians, let alone the founding fathers, that an imperialistic police state which

• imprisoned and tortured its own people in military black sites,
• spent billions on foreign aid to nations that hate us while letting its own people starve, and
• locked up huge portions of its population for decades with no hope of ever living a normal life was a "democracy", they'd think you were mocking them.