The historical precedents to get an idea of the amount of effort necessary to actually *attempt* to repudiate virulent racism and fascism, are American Reconstruction and the denazification of Germany.

Hint: neither did so via a single election. Both took years. One failed.

In the US, it involved 3 constitutional amendments, a forcible restructuring of electoral processes, deplatforming and disenfranchising former confederates, automatic registration of all newly eligible voters, martial law, etc

And that was not enough.

The Reconstruction Acts registered all adult males except those who'd served in the Confederacy, from high ups down to dogcatchers. It involved outside election observers, martial law, banning former Confederate leaders from holding office again.

And it was not enough.

By 1872, the Amnesty Act kicked in and replatformed all by the 500 top Confederates.

Violence like the 1874 Battle of Liberty Place, where the White League invaded a town with 5,000 members, went unprosecuted and unpunished.

Within a matter of a few years, *all* that effort was eroded, piece by piece.

Every tiniest civil rights victory was clawed away. Every former slave owner was returned to a position of power over Black people.

Literally by the mid 1870's, almost all that effort was eroded by overwhelming white supremacy into a system of disenfranchisement that'd last for almost a century later.

In other words: it took the US about a decade of intense, focused effort to deplatform former slave owners, enfranchise the Black population, and rewrite its government to make this permanent.

And it didn't stick. It wasn't enough.

The history of Reconstruction shows that martial law, banning former rebels from holding office or even voting, armed enforcement of voting rights, rewriting the constitution 3 separate times, etc, over the course of a *decade* was not enough.

No one election did that.

They did not repudiate (temporarily but still) the message of the Confederacy by one election.

It took years of literally holding a gun to the heads of those who'd participated, years of rewriting the constitution and restructuring the electoral process.

And it wasn't enough

Reconstruction points to the scale of effort required to actually, sustainably repudiate a platform of virulent racism.

And it uncontestably failed, not enough effort was made before it was eroded piece by piece for another century.

The denazification of France and Germany, points to the scale of effort required to more successfully repudiate a virulent minority of fascists.

Hint: no one election did so.

Historically, it takes *years* of focused, wide-ranged restructuring, with the will to brutally and violently purge the remnants from power.

And as the US showed, all that effort can be reversed in only a few years.

Basically: you should not have expected a repudiation of trumpism to be as easy as casting a vote.

Actual repudiation looks like a decade or more of sustained effort.

And, you should not expect it to automatically be successful.

Sustained, long-term, decades-long repudiation that involves *punishing* collaborators and removing their voices from power by any force necessary.

And then keeping up that work, in the face of their violent attempts to regain control.

The US failed the first time it was asked to do this.