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If the ruling class is sufficiently united, then they will keep elections as they have for 250 years. After all, if the ruling class remains united, an election cannot change anything and there is no reason to get rid of it.
But if there is a genuine danger of a fracture in the ruling class, then the ruling class of America will move towards a more open form of dictatorship to keep itself in line and disciplined.
Fascism, or what marx called bonapartism is basically the ruling class version of bolsheivism. It is a form of self-discipline under a reactionary vanguard. The vanguard establishes a dictatorship only when the electoral mechanism is perceived as "failed". And this requires an irreconcilable fracture.