Maybe you are conflating authoritarianism with dictatorship but that is only one kind. We live in an oligarchy and have for many years. Trump is the latest intensification of that trend.
It’s backwards to blame the faults of oligarchy on democracy. The reverse would be true.
However you are quite right that political system we are living under seems incapable of righting itself. The upper class is like a parasite that doesn’t know or care if it’s killing its host.
