> the left hate democracy don't they
There are several flavours of democracy, and lots of people on both left and right hate some flavours, especially when it doesn't got their way!
For example, Merriam-Webster defines democracy in two ways as:
a : government by the people; especially : rule of the majority
b : a government in which the supreme power is vested in the people and exercised by them directly or indirectly through a system of representation usually involving periodically held free elections
"Rule of the majority" is "democracy" is it? In that case, Clinton beat Trump and Al Gore beat W, but that isn't the flavour of democracy that America chooses to run with. That's fine, but then it's hardly surprising that with such a winner-takes-all system as America has, when the winner of the popular vote is left with nothing her supporters feel that democracy has failed them.