The GOP pulls shit like this because they never have to pay a price.
The Dems need to call it a potential coup attempt, stress how undemocratic and dangerous this way of contesting the election is, and remind people of this for a long time.
Instead it'll just be forgotten and never mentioned by Dems again as they try to play nice, govern moderately and unite the country.
A good thorough season of prosecutions of the trump family, enablers, side grifters, and complicit members of the senate and congress, along with funders of allied lost causes, and a few dirty judges resulting in ruinous legal fees, significant prison time, and asset forfeiture would dissuade republicans from launching attacks on the United States and on the rule of law willy-nilly, as they have for the last half century.
Had Stone and Mannafort been disemboweled and defenestrated as they richly deserved after their Nixon shenanigans, shrub would have folded in Florida, saving us from 9/11, Katrina, and the financial collapse. Trump would have died in the primaries saving us from all the evils that almost make shrub seem like a passable president in comparison. He wasn’t passable even though trump has been much worse. We should grind Pimpeo, Miller, Munchkin, Wolf, and the rest of their cohort in to fine powder. We should be infinitely more brutal toward Kushner, Ivanka, donnito, and Eric. The old man himself must die in ridicule and penury, abandoned and reviled. All amoral political climbers should now fates like that are the reward for success in such attacks on our nation.