Republicans Line Up In Support Of Their Glorious Leader

Trump is not alone.  He has much of the organized Republican Party leadership at both the national and state levels fully supporting his sedition.

Late Wednesday afternoon, in as clear a demonstration as there ever has been of the authoritarian rot at the heart of the Republican Party, 17 other states, all governed primarily by Republicans, filed an amicus brief in support of the ludicrous lawsuit being brought by Ken Paxton, the indicted Republican attorney general of Texas, that seeks to overturn the results of the presidential election by disenfranchising millions of voters in Wisconsin, Michigan, Georgia, and Pennsylvania.

These people know that Trump lost the election, but they don't care.  Their commitment to Constitutional government is only viable if their party is in control of said government. 

Trump voters are more than willing to overlook Trump's inability to provide evidence of actual fraud in any state during the 2020 election.  Trump spent much of his time in the months (years) before the election preparing his MAGA followers.  The "fake news media", the "deep state", mail in election fraud, voting fraud in predominantly Black cities...  Trump planted the seeds, but don't forget that the ground had been fertilized by decades of right wing lies and deceptions.

By and large, Republican voters who claim that Biden stole the election are arguing from bad faith, not delusion.

This distinction is important because it shows that the intentions of Republican voters (and too many of their elected leaders) are sinister, and need to be taken seriously as an overt assault on democracy. Understanding modern politics means understanding one crucial reality about the current landscape: Conservatives don’t hold beliefs, they only have rationalizations.

Many of their long-standing beliefs don’t hold up to modern moral standards or rational scrutiny. Rather than give up those beliefs, however, Republicans have developed a series of disingenuous gambits, conspiracy theories and trolling tactics to derail conversations, sow confusion and otherwise distract those who would challenge their indefensible ideology.

Republicans are pretty much good with Trump stealing the 2020 election with the support of the party's leadership.  For all their flag waving and faux patriotism, it is clear that most Republicans would be happy living in an authoritarian country as long as their glorious leader is in charge.