Reading this from Michigan, it seems inevitable that there will be violence. The members of Cult 45 have basically ceded the ground of objective reality to Democrats and a few Republicans - some of whom will be replaced by the like of Marjorie Traitor Greene, Lauren Boebert and (yikes) Ammon Bundy.
However, these Bizarro World recounts and audits will not show fraud. The QAnon prophecies of Trump returning to power in August will not happen. For some - hopefully the vast majority - this will signal that the whole system is corrupt and they will drop out of electoral politics. Maybe they'll move to Hungary or Russia where they will feel more comfortable under authoritarian rule, but I doubt it.
But some will turn to violence. There's a Timothy McVeigh out there, just waiting for his moment. We've already seen the capacity for violence on January 6th, but there will be something horrible in our future, because Trump and the Republican Party are feeding their deluded base dangerous lies.
They've already started upping the rhetoric; it will get worse.
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