When, Not If

 Paul Campos explores the next stage in GOP fuckery surrounding the election. Tomorrow, the Electors will meet and vote and Joe Biden will pass 270 electoral votes with quite a few to spare. While there are potential faithless electors, I doubt it happens this time.

More concerning is what will happen in the Congress in early January. Given the behavior of the Sedition Caucus that supported Texas' lunatic bid to overturn the election, we can be sure that quite a few House members will object to Biden's victory. The odds of all GOP Senators acknowledging Biden's win is not zero, but you can see zero from there. Tom Cotton, Ted Cruz, Ron Johnson or some other cynical moron will object, and then accepting the entirely lawful and legitimate election will be thrown to both houses of Congress. Because the House will not go along with the objections, Biden will be made the victor. In fact, I think Romney, Sasse, Collins and quite a few other GOP Senators will vote to certify Biden's victory. It will be something like 80-20 in the Senate.

But what happens under different circumstances? What happens if the result is more a 2000 election, but where the Democrat wins the popular vote by several million, but it comes down to one state. The Republican candidate is awful, but not Trump-awful. He or she has ties to the GOP establishment. Let's say it all comes down to Pennsylvania, and the GOP refuses to accept their electors from that state because of "voter fraud" (which is really just Black and Brown people voting in Philly). Because they control the House and Senate, they decide to take the plunge and end electoral democracy in America.

Is there anything that suggests that the current GOP would defend American democracy, if it meant getting four years of President Mike Pompeo or President Tom Cotton?

The Courts aren't especially interested - it turns out - in destroying American democracy. Congressional Republicans on the other hand....