With a few remaining exceptions, democracy is the widely accepted form of government, though with great variations in context and in risk. Its relationship varies with various political phenomena in a world that is globalised but also diverse and contradictory.
The evolution of democracy in an undemocratic direction, while preserving the name, is an everyday event. Plato, in his Republic, already pointed to corrupt democracies that degenerate into tyrannies, just as some tyrannies fall and give way to democracy. All this happens in a carnival of names. Under the umbrella name of democracy we can find real democracies, those that are democracies only in name and others that are ideals. But always with the inherent capacity for change, in its real or sought-after versions.