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Mate, every single politician who supports "hands off regulation" and other forms of the State (which is the thing that voters control by electing people to lead and manage it) not interfering in those things controlled by the other Power, Money, would have to be hauled before such courts.
The pro-Oligarchs (commonly known as Neoliberals) are just as much against voters controlling how Society gets managed (i.e. against Democracy) as the Fascists.
It's just that Neoliberals want Money to be the Prime power, abover a State whose hands are tied but whose leaders are elected (thou often and as seen in the US, the only choices that voters have are a carefully preselect pool of candidates), whilst the Fascists want unelected leaders controlling the State as a Prime power, above even Money, which is indeed quite a different situation for those people with enough Money for it to amount to Power, but it's not that much of a difference for the plebes like you and me who would are at the bottom of the pile and de facto powerless under both systems.
Ultimatelly "no voting" or "votes only control a secondary power which is not the top power of the land" are both anti-Democratic and the current problem of lack of Democracy (which I believe is the biggest problem in most of the West) predates the recent Trump & The Trumpettes' version of anti-Democracy by at least 3 decades.