The Theoretical Analysis of the Destruction and the Interim Rescue-Restoration of
Abstract
This paper asserts that the global COVID-19 pandemic shock was instrumental in the interim rescue-restoration of representative democracy in the United States because it propelled the rational voters to the ballot box to repudiate the 45th President of the United States for mishandling the pandemic and for propagating conspiracy theories and disinformation. We utilize a quantitative linear equation to derive the democracy destruction coefficients and the democracy rescue-restoration coefficients to highlight the magnitude of the destruction and the rescue-restoration. In this era of digital technology where social media platforms have amplified the velocity of conspiracy theories and disinformation with infinite multiplier effects, the destruction to representative democracy still looms large in the United States because half of the voters will continue to willfully consume conspiracy theories and disinformation. Furthermore, there are aspiring candidates in the Republican Party, running for political offices at the local, state, and federal levels, who will adopt and strategically utilize the democracy destruction playbook that the 45th President embedded in their party in order to achieve ochlocratic autocracy.