That's how it works. If you don't learn the lesson the first time around you'll have to keep repeating it until you do.
Moscow meddled in the 2016 election with the goal of establishing a puppet of The Kremlin into The Oval Office who would do Vlad's bidding.
Russia has known for a long time that America was ripe for a takeover. Russian psy-ops determined long ago that The Republican Party and it's voters was the weak link that could be pried open to allow a Russian tool inside that once in place could begin dismantling our republic from the inside, piece by piece until it is completely destroyed.
The Covid pandemic interrupted the plans the first time around though. Nobody saw that coming. Biden won and the plans for the coup were put on hold for four years.
This last time around though we got a new and improved attack upon our nation with Trump teaming up with Elon and the other oligarchs. Now it was possible to rig the election directly through the voting machines in plain sight.
Not only that, even brag about it!