The author is flat-out wrong about this. The U.S. was established as an oligarchy by design. That’s why silly, delusional terms like “democracy” don’t appear in our founding documents.
There’s no way in hell iconic men like George Washington, Thomas Jefferson and James Madison ever intended to establish a system of governance where their interests could be subverted to the votes of their hired help.
This is a republic.
Our Founding Fathers did not establish an oligarchy. They fully expected the citizenry to vote for what made sense and expected morals to be a part of that.
You have a most perverse interpretation of US history, but I expect that from a Canadian, eh?