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I think it's a fluke, but it also shows the United States is still technically a democracy albeit with a strong fascist movement and base. If you think about it, America wasn't even supposed to be a democracy and the lower classes had to fight for the right to vote (which is still tenuous today).
Honestly, what you see is also just good ole' bourgeois infighting as well... so what else is new? We've seen this before.
I think para-politics can only go so far in explaining things and often leads to conspiracism in ML circles (with many justifying it with phrases like "Well, conspiracies DO happen, " which is true, but ultimately reductive in explaining things), but infighting among various factions in the bourgeois class is an explanation that makes sense, is verifiably true, and has happened throughout history.
So, honestly, what you ask is not a bad question, but it does have an answer that's likely true.