This is what happens when democracy is stretched to its actual limits. Only in a modern age we come to grasp some of what was at stake in democracy in its ancient form - in the Land of Hellenes.
But in a nutshell what would you suggest is "really" at stake.

And within the confines of the discourse of representation and in and around it, lies the problem of demagoguey. Any political analysis thus, that endorses the moves of demagoguery cannot evade representation even when it explicitly claims to denounce it.

The violent assertion of an opinion has no effect upon the convictions behind its particular premise since it has been asserted violently

Therefore the problem of how to analyse political discourse in its populist form is the problem of recognizing the necessity to axiomize political analysis upon parapolitical premises.

"Everything that was once lived directly has moved away into representation."

Fate lived collectively is now divided exclusively.