How to Counterclaim Against a Democracy

Democracy's legitimacy is incredibly tenuous right like this gives you this question of how do you determine what the people are. One one way that you can make a sort of counterclaim again against a democracy is by physically assembling a shit ton of people in a place and going "we are the people" This was a thing that happens in mexico in 2006 in wahaka where people basically ran out the police by literally hundreds of thousands of people.