The Western democracies/republics all rest on a single foundation.
The Judeo Christian world view. Based on 2 millennia of church tradition and the Judeo Christian Bible that tradition rests on. Democracies were a late comer but arose out of the rights of humanity as the Bible taught. The rights that God gave, not the State. Democracies were a final flowering of these ideas rooted in the Bible.
As different interests remove blocks out from underneath, the foundations get shaky. The 10 commandments, evolution rather than creation, the idea that a separation of church and state becomes a separation from all church stuff in the state- it's all under attack.
One of the systems that is supposed to keep things working is free and fair elections. It should technically rebalance things in favour of the voter, and the voter should vote their conscience. In a country with mostly born again people that works great.
BUT
This was a successful coup- to influence the election results. And it worked. Not in Trumps first term obviously, but at the end of his first term!!!
It doesn't matter that Russia wasn't actually involved at the level that was claimed by the left - that coup came from within, that it came from Trump's opposition, the Democrats. They did it, and succeeded because they could, and because they lost the idea of why elections are necessary and have to be fair. Institutions within the country that should have protected it failed as they were stacked by the same kind of people rigging the elections.
That made it worse. Because one of the 2 main parties in US politics decided that free and fair elections weren't necessary. They could just RULE. They fell apart a bit, and lost this last one, but people in both parties were taking notes.
When other countries or people inside those countries can rig elections, this becomes rule by force, a dictatorship that uses any and all means to stay in power. That's how banana republics get going.
This is happening more and more.
Power groups inside the country - AND OUTSIDE TOO are forcing the elections to go "their way". Russia did have ideas- they preferred Hilary! But by the Biden election, they weren't as involved.
In the end it won't matter what goes on inside the country, once elections can be rigged routinely, they will be. By both sides. At every election. And any country that sees an opportunity to interfere with a neighbouring country will!
We are heading for a time when elections won't even happen. 10 kings rise, then they give their authority to the Beast.
Nowhere in there is a free and fair election process. Nowhere in the prophetic picture does it suggest that the leaders/leader that arise care about their "voters", the people they rule. Or care about how the voters feel.
Elections are so last year! Out of style. It's a brave new world that awaits a supreme leader and he is the Antichrist.
Time is running out in the last grains of sand in the hourglass that marks the church age before the Rapture. Elections are being rigged. We are nearly out of here.