What if Biden somehow avoids entering DC all together? So the military get nowhere near him and the media just say oh look yep he was inaugarted here's some prerecorded shit we made earlier. Then the process may become drawn out and quite messy, if the military is set on protecting your glorious Republic
I think in 2016 the genuinely believed Trummo was a joke and it was only a small basket of deplorable supporting him. They didn't have a back plan with hundreds of thousands mail in ballots to bring in either as the rules were different in 2020. To some extent I think they fool themselves all the time, many normies and others think anyone on the right is just a fool in a small group. Same with Brexit, over half the country voted to leave but in media and by people in general they act like there's only a handful of idiots that would do such a thing.