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Many Americans didn't. But unfortunately too many did. In centuries to come there will be lots of studies about how millions of people could do gleefully self-sabotage. Is it due to some sort of environmental poisoning (lead, plastics, pollution, etc)? Or plain old brainwashing? Maybe be both, maybe sometime else entirely. Either way, it will become a massive cautionary tale.
There are a lot of thing done by people in charge that made it possible.
deregulation of media in US (see Telecommunication act of 1996)
constant cuts to education because uneducated people are easier to fool
mainstream media houses owned by rich people or large corporations
dividing the population so they vote against each other instead of for public good (republicans vs democrats, "immigrants are stealing your jobs", nazis vs jews, "Unions are stealing your wages", etc)
More modern examples are Must buying Twitter to get more misonformation there and Trump ordering buying of Tiktok "to protect children" and thus censoring all epstein speak there.
70 million did and 90 million didn't vote, which is support of Fascism.
The majority didnt do the thing majorities do to protect the country. Thats illustrative about how much the country means to these shmucks. Bystander effect on a national scale.