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If you set the precedent that the government can ignore the result of an election because the electee is bad, that's the very tool that a tyrannical government will use.

The first thing every dictator and tyrannical government does is stop or subvert the elections. There's still elections in Russia and China and North Korea.

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Dictators and tyrannical governments are perfectly able to make their own tools. Hitler didn't need to edit an existing law allowing the government to kill Nazis, to target Jews and gypsies. He didn't need an existing law giving chancellors unlimited powers. He simply wrote those laws he needed, then used them. If the government prior to his one had a law giving Nazis the death penalty, it could have saved a lot of lives.

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No but he did need a population ready to accept the idea that a non democratic government is necessary.