Government in functioning democratic societies is policed by voters, journalists, and many independent watchdog groups.
Maybe there is a reference country, at some period in living memory hopefully, we could use as a reference?
Take a look at France, where a former president went to prison. Okay, it got commuted to house arrest (same sentence as a former PM candidate for president), but that's still a pretty serious punishment, especially for a such a high level politician.
There is no house arrest, he appealed and is innocent until proven guilty. People stay in prison after appealing in case there is a serious risk of them fleeing the country or in case they present a danger to society, both of these have been deemed low enough
The public is supposed to police the government, and replace it if it acts against the public interest.
But now that you mention it, perhaps we should also give everyone an equal vote on replacing the boards of too-big-to-fail corporations
The US-ians voted twice for Trump so far. I have difficulty seeing the good it did for the world , let alone the USA and the US-ians.
Specifically for corporations, giving everyone in the world the power to vote for dismantling Meta (a world mega-corp) might be interesting to see , though.
The problem is that they wants have been steered in that direction by decades of cynical media manipulation, but that's just the nature of democracy.
But yes, a lot of people look at the insanity of putting an unqualified moron who doesn't believe in germ theory in charge of public health and thunderously applaud. He certainly that delivered to them.
so does government