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No, it's authoritarianism vs democracy. It's a very well-known concept in political science that authoritarian regimes can make decisions and execute on them far faster than democracies. The problem is that autocratic decision making ultimately creates instability by implementing policies and decisions that don't have a broad base of stakeholder support. Why should any citizen support a decision that was made without their input or consent?
It's also a reflection of how much power money still holds even in the US's democratic system. The decision to not build high speed rail in California was heavily influenced by a single billionaire, it wasn't voted on.
America isn't a democracy. It's a democracy of the rich and always has been, the rest us were begrudgingly allowed a vote over centuries but our influence is still very limited
And yet the Titans of Industry tended to support Clinton over Trump: https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2016/10/25/donald-trump-a-billionaire-shunned-by-the-very-rich
In this case I would have preferred the outcome of the billionaire-backed candidate winning.