It is important he do this if the courts do not act as they should, because if Trump doesn't the people absolutely will. The point of laws isn't just to protect the innocent, but also to protect the guilty. A functional judicial system can be far more measured and informed when passing a sentence than a mob ever can.

But should relief for an undeniably stolen election not be found, and no judicial actor step in, the mob will act, and will act in the only way a mob CAN act. Who will they drag from their homes?

Governors for sure. But who else in Michigan, or Arizona? Do you have a list of the truly deserving? Does anyone? The mob won't. The hunt for the guilty will become decreasingly discriminate as it casts wider and wider nets. Every election official with a (D) will soon be fair game, and it will sprawl out from there. Any elected official in any state who condemns in word or deed the mob becomes fair game and soon summary judgements at the hands of a rightfully angry mob will be dispensed in historically shameful fashion.

Who shall be judged for treasonous theft of an election, and who shall merely be judged as ignorantly abetting? The mob is a mob, it can't know, and it errs on letting none escape, it errs on harshness. What shall the sentence be? The mob has no prisons, but it does have bullets. It has access to no lawyers, and is has no time for trials. Yet the travesty of justice left to a mob is still better than the alternative of doing nothing, and so it will be done. And the people will weigh the horrors acted against the horrors avoided and be glad of it all the same.

After the courts, the ONLY thing standing between you and that future is the President invoking emergency powers to mete justice in stead of the mob. Emergency powers are not preferable to the judicial system, but it is absolutely superior to the mob.