What about Shmuel being unhappy when Jews (democratically) ask him to establish the monarchy?
Btw, most nations had kings for centuries not because they were dumb and never heard about democracy. Democracy was not considered viable – with masses of uneducated people making decisions. That is why we do not live in a democracy, but in a Republic.
We partially solved the “uneducated” problems in 20th century, but created an opposite one. Now, there are oligopolies in education and information industries, so people (aka voters) get fed well-crafted information en masse. We can see this in almost every discussion – everyone is capable of coming up with a statistics that confirm their views, selected from some source somewhere.
I think the reasons for the public frustration is this lack of reasonable discussion. If the country would let Trump use his considerable energy to fight Chinese, Russians, and COVID instead of NYT front page, we would be in a much better place right now.