I would not that it sometimes seems people wish for the total collapse of western liberal democracy, but really, people want western liberal democracy to reform and be liberal democracies agains. Most of us know that most regimes are much worse elsewhere currently. But it does not mean that western liberal democracies have not slowly drifted into illiberal oligarchies in some regards: media owned by billionaires mostly, free speech very much attacked, monetary policy in a corner and more and more discretionary, vaccines and mask mandates etc

Thinking it should and could operate in a better way is not the same as being a Putin or Xi apologist