[refurb]

Here is my attempt - real and imagined concerns around the integrity of the election got enough people riled up to exhaustively challenge it through the courts and bum-rush the Capitol. The court cases mostly failed (some are still on-going), a lot of elected officials started to drop support when they realized not much evidence existed to overturn results and the crazies were coming out of the woodwork.

[covidthrow]

I agree with this characterization.

I have an extensive analysis of how I came to the same conclusion here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26603166