Still use the word democracy when redpilling leftoids.

It hacks their brain and lowers their defenses to truthful messages.

"We need voter ID and paper ballots to enhance election integrity, to PROTECT OUR DEMOCRACY."

It's not a dirty word, either, if you use a dictionary definition like:

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 [Merriam-Webster's surprisingly neutral def]

or

a system of government by the whole population or all the eligible members of a state, typically through elected representatives

BTW these definitions are incredibly close to ones for "republic"

There is no left/right, it's all global authoritarian governance vs. independent self-governance