Yeah the fail state was allowing people to vote for Trump period, or to let him be a free man after 1/6 (at least). The man launched an attempted coup, then was allowed to leave office & continue his activities for the next four years & even ignore his final explicit criminal convictions.
Like that's three quarters of the ballgame right there, a fatal arrogance. Crimes are not up for electoral dispute! Treason is disqualifying!
For all their faults, Peru and South Korea at least are sufficiently functional democracies to put their criminal ex-presidents behind bars
And that's on the judiciary which for varying reasons protected Trump from facing any consequences for his criminal behavior despite numerous and repeated attempts by Democrats to bring some.
There's plenty of blame to go around there