Is God Sovereign Over Appointing Officials?

When we're dealing with a democracy situation, I guess one of my reactions is part of the difficulty is that I'm the government. And so to that degree, I am the government. So has God appointed me as the government? How does that work when it gets democratized all the way down to the individual level? "I struggle with how to make sense of what my, where the lines of my responsibility end up landing," he says.