Democracy, a much-used, one might even say hackneyed, term. A flag branded as an alibi for almost everything. But what does democracy mean today? Episodes of various kinds shake it almost constantly, redefining it, and in recent times this is by no means an exception. It is therefore pertinent to question its capacities, the cracks in it, to take the temperature of its present evolution and, if possible, to try to project it in the medium and long term.