I apologize for the length of this article, but even so, and though it is 17 years old, it is quite prescient and a worthy read. The word Liberal in this context is traditional liberalism not that of the modern vernacular.
The article exposes the failure of democracies, democracy building and the superiority of Constitutional Republics, democratically elected.
Yet, the breakdown is occurring here due to the never ending statist support for Democratic ideology and their attempts to wrongly convince the masses of the nature of our government through continual characterization of our system as a “Democracy.” Our system was founded as a Republic with traditional liberal democratic principles. Democracy, as our forefathers warned us, is far from a panacea.