There are many fake democracies in the world. They have elections but there is only one candidate. Russia will soon have a presidential election like that. There are undemocratic parts of elections even though there are two legitimate candidates with almost an even chance of winning. One was the last Presidential election in the US. Trump was nominated through a fairly democratic process through his party. Clinton’s party allows too many “superdelegates” that are establishment members of the party. So her nomination was not as democratic, though, in a more democratic process, she probably would have still received the nomination.