It's not democracy that's in retreat, it's the EuroCentric imperialist system in retreat because it is losing on nearly every dimension. And when the imperialists start losing, they lean hard into liberal power structures and abandon abstract liberal values, which the privileged members of those societies read as fascism. In actuality the control structures liberal societies apply to its oppressed members are the same as the ones they apply to privileged members when they are in retreat.
You want democracy? Overthrow liberalism.