But this is not a problem of democracy. It is a problem of radicalisation. Everything is fine as long as all sides are confident that the other side consists-despite disagreement-of decent people. Up until recently it was quite rare in the west for an election outcome to instil an end-of-days kind of fear in 50%+ of a country's population. It happened in the US and it may also happen in a lot of European countries soon, where what we would have called fascism in the good old days, is on a steady rise.