The media's hysterical narrative about an incipient coup isn't about reality. It's about maintenance of the narrative that they were correct to abandon their journalistic credibility in pursuit of Orange Hitler, because he was a unique threat to the republic, and remains so.

But it turns out that Orange Hitler wasn't in fact a threat to the republic. There is a legal process; it will take place; if the electors vote for Joe Biden, a peaceful transition of power will take place.

If that happens, it will be obvious to everyone that the entire self-justifying media narrative has been a lie. It will be clear that their willingness to ignore facts in pursuit of that narrative was about political activism, not speaking truth to power.

So the narrative must be preserved, even at the cost of looking like hysterical ninnies who treat Republican failure to say "president-elect" before the certification of a single state vote as a constitutional crisis. It's a coup! It's a crisis! Bullcrap. It's not.