Most of the time elections can get rigged or messed up, along with the fact that a lot of smaller countries cant handle the new agenda. The 2020 report of the Varieties of Democracy Institute found that the global share of democracies declined from 54% in 2009 to 49% in 2019, and that a greater share of the global population lived in autocratizing countries (6% in 2009, 34% in 2019). Good examples of this failure is Germany before WW2.
