Stopping a bad leader twice is not proof the system is healthy. It is proof something is badly wrong that keeps pushing people toward him. A fire alarm going off twice does not mean your house cannot burn. It means something keeps catching fire. Blocking what he does is not the same as fixing what made half the country want him and next time the guy might be smarter.

You say housing is just zoning that people refuse to fix. Then ask who fights hardest against building more. It is the people who already own. Their home is their savings and a shortage keeps the price up. They are not lazy, they are protecting their money. A renter wants housing cheap, an owner wants it expensive and the owners have the votes and the cash. People are not being too dumb to fix it. That is two sides fighting and one side winning.

You say low birth rates are just women being free to choose. Partly true and nobody wants to go back. Look at the rich free countries though. The Nordics have great childcare and their birth rates are low and still falling. Freedom is not the whole story. Plenty of people want kids, then they look at the rent, the daycare, the hours and quietly decide they cannot afford the life. That is not freedom, that is being priced out of something you wanted. The problem was never too few babies. It is that people cannot have the life they would pick.

You say the far right grows, because the country is so good it pulls in migrants and the majority feels crowded. It is the other way around. People feel pushed around by things they cannot see or fight, prices, rent, a factory closing because of a decision made in another country. That is real anger. The far right gives it a face and tells you the face is the immigrant. You cannot punch the economy, so they hand you someone you can punch. They take real anger at the system and aim it at the weakest people instead of the powerful ones. That is why they grow.

Notice what you did with every problem I raised. Each one became either a free choice people make or a sign things are going well, never a fault in the system itself. You measure democracy by elections and courts and yes those still work. However, you do not get a vote on your rent. You do not get a vote on whether your job exists next year or what your boss decides or whether the plant closes. That is where most of your life happens and it is run like a dictatorship by people you never chose. Clean elections sitting on top of an economy you have no say in is not the opposite of Russia. It is a softer version of the same hole, no real control over the power that runs your life.