I suspect Repubs are only pantomiming because they know it won’t work & Biden will be sworn in
Like kids playing with the stove, eyeballing Mom the whole time, knowing she’ll stop them
If it worked, they’d have to be responsible for the results of their choices. Can’t have that
Republicans have spent decades successfully blaming Democrats for the bad results of their policies & putting forward none of their own beyond tax cuts.
If they pulled off a coup they would have to stand by it & every fruit of that poisoned tree.
They literally don’t know how.
A coup ends the whole idea of an opposing party. It leaves Republicans in full control
Even with their full time propaganda network, they can’t pretend jettisoning the whole-ass Constitution doesn’t mean they’re in charge.
They haven’t had to stand by a choice since Eisenhower
If there was any chance at all of the Sedition Caucus pulling this coup off, they would never do it.
Their grift, their prestige, their safety, their rhetoric all depend on a functioning system not stomped into chaos by civil war against the majority they would disenfranchise.
Any given Republican would rather eat their own face on live TV than make a public decision & be held responsible for its consequences
That’s why McConnell is their savior. He blocks everything so they never even have to vote, their names are attached to no actual choices, ever.
