Democracy dies in darkness.
A closed door session for members of your party to vote on who their leader should be in the house is hardly the death of democracy.
The far right had their opportunity to convince the other Republicans to go a different direction. They lost. Now they are essentially planning on taking the ball and going home.
Which is fine with me because it goes to show how unfit for leadership the R's are at this point. They dumped agenda making and swore fealty to Trump in their platform. Now shockingly they have no platform and no agreement on anything because Trump only believes in whatever is good for him at the time.