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Originally Posted by humndislocation
I can't remember a concrete example off the top of my head, but I'm pretty sure that America has toppled democracies, in favour of dictatorships that supported the US more, in the past.
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Well there's the 1954 Guatemalan coup d'état where the democratically-elected President was overthrown because he'd pissed off United Fruit by buying land they were keeping unused in order to keep fruit prices high, and giving the land to poor farmers. From Wikipedia: "In the 11 days after Arbenz's resignation five successive juntas occupied the presidential palace, each more amenable to American demands than the last, with Armas himself finally taking office at the end. He proved to be embarrassingly inept and his corrupt and repressive policies renewed civil conflict unseen in the country since before the revolution of 1944."
There's been other attempts, like the 1981-1990 CIA-directed revolution against Nicaragua's democratically-elected government. It's also claimed the US was behind 2002's failed Venezuelan coup d'état.
Covert U.S. regime change actions - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia