Something that couldn't be sustained cannot be said to have worked. The numbers don't matter if the policy doesn't have genuinely broad and non-performative public approval, and Prohibition clearly didn't, given how many people skirted those laws.

If people lack the willpower to sustain it, then it's not a working solution in a democracy, as simple as that.

Yeah yeah and Mussolini made the trains run on time. We've heard that stuff before.