The right wing can try and steal an election in the open because they believe their opposition isn’t organized enough to pull off a general strike, or punish them after the fact. There’s no accountability and they’re not afraid enough. Going high gets you jack shit
Lawyers who won Bush v Gore are on the Supreme Court, ready to steal another election. They’re looking for any excuse to disenfranchise people. When the polls say one thing and the result is another thing, that screams illegitimacy. They’re betting we just sit there and take it
The scariest thing to me is that Biden ekes out his win, and no one who is doing the bad shit you see now gets punished, from the vote suppressors to the border cops, and they come back in four years because they weren’t stripped of power. And that is very likely to happen.