He has a Doctorate in history and he thinks the USA is a democracy?
No he is not a PhD yet, so there is still a (vanishingly small) hope that his advisor will fail him.
I haven't met too many PhD candidates in hard sciences that have taken 6 years, most seem to do it in 3 or 4. Must take longer in the fuzzy fields like history.
Not only that, but he probably doesn't understand why the founding fathers didn't create a democracy!