The big story around the world - from Brexit to the impeachment farce, from Hong Kong to Iraq - is political elites refusing to accept the outcome of elections that don't go their way, and electorates suddenly discovering they're not really allowed to vote on certain things.
If you vote the way the elite wants you to, that's it. The matter is settled forever. No further votes will ever be held. No disobedience will be permitted. "Resistance" is hateful and seditious. The next step in the direction the elite wishes to go will be taken immediately.
But if you vote against the elite, the battle is just beginning. Compliance will be slow-walked and sabotaged at every turn. Elite-friendly media will portray the vote as illegitimate. An endless series of re-votes and do-overs will be scheduled, under new rules if possible.
Deplorable voters might be bluntly informed by the elite that certain matters are actually beyond the purview of elected representatives, with policies set by a permanent bureaucracy that will override "wrong" choices made by the electorate.
The magic word "mandate" will never be used if the voters make decisions that displease the elite. No one who wins a vote against the elite is ever portrayed as having any sort of "mandate for change" at all. "Change" suddenly isn't praised as a wonderful act of courage.
At BEST, a vote against the interests of the elite is treated as the beginning of a negotiation. If the people don't back down right away, the elite might talk about tossing them a few little symbolic concessions, then savage them as extremists if they persist in their demands.
"Peaceful transfer of power after elections" only happens if the elite wins. They fight like maniacs to hold every scrap of their power if they lose. No sane person could describe the response of the U.S. political elite to Donald Trump's election as a peaceful transfer of power.
The elite tries to force its subjects to reject concepts like "nationalism" and "sovereignty" as vile curse words to preserve the option of nullifying elections the elite doesn't like. They would forfeit that option by accepting that they have a duty to sovereign voters.
The details are different in each country, but the crisis is the same: the people are told democracy has invisible limits unspecified in their constitutions. There are things you don't get to vote on after all. Your demands are rudely exposing a polite fiction of democracy.
You don't get to make demands of your rulers, and you most certainly do not get to "throw the bums out" if you lose confidence in their governance. You are permitted to make suggestions to your betters. THEY give the orders. Period. /end
