Former President Trump believed enough of the 100 Senators and 435 members of the House would join him in claiming electoral fraud to act to stop it. They did not.
It appears he overlooked an important aspect of their membership in Congress, one obvious in retrospect. That aspect? Every member of Congress was elected via the current flawed-to-some-degree vote-counting system.
Members of Congress have no personal motive to choose to view it as “broken.” In fact, were it “fixed,” they might have trouble getting reelected.
If for no other reason, this factor made his effort futile. He should have understood they were all survivors, even beneficiaries, of the existing state-and-local system, and thus have looked elsewhere for support, or better yet, conceded with grace.
