Full disclosure. I'm from Canada, so I have no skin in the game of US politics. I try to keep abreast of the competing narratives on both sides, though. I also try to see through the partisan hackery and propaganda on both sides, and ignore the grandstanding, muckraking, ad hominem attacks and the rest of the adolescent nonsense that goes on.
I'm not sure that Trump has any sort of master plan to derail anything at this point. His political endgame is being played out right now as he assiduously reinforces this narrative of a stolen election. He’s set the hook in the minds of his followers that corrupt Democrats are the true blame, but he’s also widening the net to include traitorous GOP swing state governors and judges as well as Fox News and other GOP ‘RINO’ heretics that have exited Trumpland and recognized Biden’s victory. Why does he persist in this charade? The answer is simple: by perpetuating the myth of a stolen election he can avoid the admission of having suffered defeat and thus bow out of politics as the swindled victim who was denied his rightful second term in the White House. His hope is to save face in the eyes of his supporters and the sympathetic right-wing media. After Jan 20th who knows what his next move will be. My money right now is he'll return to The Apprentice, or maybe pull of some segue grift that leverages his status as former President. Maybe starting that Trump TV enterprise that we've heard rumor of.
Trump has used his salesman tactics to engender an intense loyalty from his base of voters. That lever of populist power has enabled him to effectively take over the Republican party. This is what House and Senate members fear, and why they have all fallen into lockstep with him. With a single tweet, Trump can destroy GOP political careers. Can a political party function successfully without debate, dissent and a diversity of ideas? Perhaps the election outcome is the harvest of Trump's own toil in the barren ground of rot and ruin caused by his own mismanagement and failings. Why doesn't the buck stop with him? His other colleagues in the Party did just fine in their election races. His 'Elite Strike Force' legal team had the 'Best People', but they were only able to win a single challenge in court. Maybe he just lost. It seems terrible in this immediate moment, but it could herald a turning point for the Republican party. They consistently lose the popular vote, and if they cry 'fraud' each and every time, then how will that help them to adopt better long-term strategies?
Will it have pictures of BLM vampires eating ballots?