Originally Posted by
time4fun
One of the scarier things about this whole situation is just how close Trump got to overturning the election.
Fortunately the effort was doomed because of the current makeup of Congress. But even after he incited a riot and sent them to attack Congress, 145 Congressional Republicans voted to invalidate the Pennsylvania electoral vote. Before it happened, there were at least 14 Senators who were willing to vote to invalidate several state elections. (basically every swing state Trump lost)
Imagine if the GOP had a strong majority in the House and Senate. Imagine the GOP version of the 2008 election.
With the approval of those objections in the House assured, how many more GOP Senators would have jumped on board? It's easy to not sign on when you know it's not going to go through. But how many of them would have been willing to risk being accused of being the Senator who kept Trump from having a second term by their Republican base? Most of them either refused to criticize his rhetoric about the election or actively participated in pushing the lies themselves.
We've witnessed 4 years of Senate Republicans being too afraid to stand up to Trump no matter how bad things got out of fear of being primary'd on the right. If the insurrection attempt hadn't happened, there's no reason to expect they would have magically grown spines or a conscience.
How differently that could all have played out.
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