It is a difference of foundation. This is not "one bad election", this is the foundations of all of western society are rotten to the core and the populace are deeply demoralized. With the dominant religion being an evil yet stupid cult (the woke cult)
They had a lot going to them back then that could allow recovery. We don't.
Also, this is not the first time society collapsed on a massive scale.
See the fall of rome and the thousand years of darkness that followed.
The biggest problem though, is modern technology allows for massively more harm to be done. Nuclear war, or mass surveillance, and unmanned weapons mean we can't just wait out the collapse and then rebuild afterwards.
were at the begining stages of the fall of the republic not the fall of rome.
Our civilization still has a couple centuries of life in it, hopefully we leave behind good successor states before we actually fall.