The people vote but their will is ignored by those whom they elect – presidents are elected by the states, not the people, that’s not democracy; California has the same number of votes in the Senate as Wyoming, that’s not democracy; the courts rule contrary to the will of the majority of the people, that’s not democracy.
During much of the 20th Century we managed to cobble together a pseudo-democracy built on a fundamentally anti-democratic foundation.
Starting 30 years ago that pseudo-democracy has been comprehensively dismantled exposing a system that is clearly anti-democratic and hostile to the will of the people.