If Trump had a little bit of discipline and could control his ego and had been coy.... so that he didn't telegraph how he planned to steal the election (with things like slowing down USPS deliveries, etc that forced investigations because he went on talk radio and fox news bragging about it), we'd likely be in a real constitutional crisis right now. This is a soft coup. It just won't work because the margins are too wide. However, if Trump was down 15 EC votes instead of 70 and Michigan was at 2000 votes instead of 200,000, we'd be in a different world right now. Look at what they're doing when this is pretty much unwinnable... if we were at different margins, it's clear Republicans would have done everything they could to steal this. The GOP is READY for an authoritarian to take over.