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If a single Act transforms your nation from a democratic-republic into a totalitarian dictatorship, then it wasn't a democratic-republic beforehand, now was it?
It's insane how fragile most Westoid democracies are. For example, the elected Prime Minister of Australia Gough Witlam was dismissed by the Governor General (the British Monarch's "ceremonial" representative) using powers that almost everyone reacted to with "woah woah woah, he can do that?!"
If you live in the UK or the commonwealth Anglo settler colonies, there's a pretty good chance that your entire constitutional framework is just a bunch of "conventions" that people mostly agree to follow but aren't enforceable. Nobody really knows what happens if someone stops following them besides "lol constitutional crisis" or "idk civil war".
At the behest of the CIA, allegedly
The CIA denies it of course, it just so happens that they called the Governor General "our man" and very suddenly he dismissed the PM while the PM was seriously and actively considering closing the Pine Gap CIA blacksite, and it just so happens that the following PM was super friendly to the US