The problem is that you are way to rational in thinking about this whole thing. Rational thinking is not on the menu.  Also you have Ted Cruz and Graham who would be willing to throw this situation into conflict.  The thing is they see it as solidifying their careers.  Trump will be playing this game for at least another 4 years and these 2 want those base voters for when he ultimately decides after 4 years and probably a billion dollar payday that he will not run.  Ted Cruz definitely has his eyes set to run in 2024 so trying to appear he is concerned and cares about Trump is how he is making his move.  The thing is, its not about whether they can get Trump reelected because that really isn't the aim, the aim is to keep his base engaged and angry so that in 2024, one of these fools can step into his place. I really see this as a move for Ted Cruz and you can believe he feels this is his time.  74 million votes is still a lot of people and I am sure Ted believes he can keep that motivation going with someone more political savvy then Trump.  Trust me, these people hate Trump to the center of their soul but they probably believe they can still ride on his coattails.

Ted Cruz and Graham are rational thinking... Their rationality is based on doing what they feel is best for them in the long run, so they will embrace obvious irrationality from Trump (or whoever else) if it gets them there. Being Trumps bestie might help them, but not if Trump's base splits off even more from the GOP. 

Trump's base is only useful if it's part of the GOP. There's a reason that the GOP did so much better in house and senate races than Trump did on the national level. Forcing a further split by getting the GOP to either vote against Trump or embrace him hardcore is not in their best interest. 

I swear every time Biden passes some step of the process, folks start claiming that Trump can still find the spear of destiny and the amulet of Osiris and if he brings both to Congress at the next full moon he can overturn the states where Biden won and reclaim the presidency. 

It's a cult. That's the way cults work. 

When one of these doomsday cults predicts the world is going to end and it doesn't, the believers never say "oh I guess we were wrong, back to sanity". They just make some bullshit rationalization and move on to the next prophecy. If they were rational and believed in evidence, then they wouldn't be in the cult.

Trumps lawyer has declared "under plenty of perjury" that the facts he alleges about voter fraud are true XD. 

So incompetent that he actually told the truth. #thekraken #4DChess #Thebestpeople

Can't get you for committing perjury if you never declared under "penalty of perjury" in the first place.

I'd say it's actually the most realistic. It's part of the cycle. When things are terribly bad, you put the best at the top and allow them to fix everything and expand. Then people get careless and greedy. Once that happens, the manipulators and useful idiots slowly take over and take advantage of this, while gradually degrading everything. Eventually you hit rock bottom.

We've just been in the degrading portion for quite a while now, so the cycle isn't evident from experience.

Since when?

Seriously, the last US President who could fit that bill would have been FDR. Both Trump and Biden are living proofs that the bolded part of what you said isn't true.

Also, just look who Germany put on top when things went terribly bad in their country during the great depression...

"The Great War" was 'great' until it wasn't, because of an even greater unforeseen war. Now they're known as the World Wars. What's important is the difference between them and what made one worse (or 'greater') than the other, without disregarding the distant past beyond them and how it compares.

Again, the point being, we've just been in the degrading portion for quite a while now, so the cycle isn't evident from experience.

Man, you're not kidding, some of the stuff the hardcore MAGA folks are posting online is absolutely cult material, worshipping Trump as a literally Christ-like figure and calling for civil war, dictatorship, mass executions of the "left", etc. Genuinely frightening stuff.