What just happened?

 

The short answer is that Lara Trump happened.  Lara Trump ran the RNC after Ronna McDaniel was ousted.  Lara asked for 100,000 volunteer poll workers/watchers.  She got 200,000 volunteers.  That scale of oversight made cheating too difficult to manage.  This also shows us the scale of the cheating that went on in 2020.  The simple tactic of having eyeballs standing ready at the polls is repeatable.  As long as the RNC can provide that level of oversight on elections, cheating, if any occurs at all, will be "small potatoes".

But something else happened, too.  The Republican Party has undergone a metamorphosis.  It is truly "not your father's Republican Party" anymore.  It has been captured by MAGA forces and, like a Borg invasion, has been assimilated.  So the election just past was not a contest between Republicans and Democrats; it was a contest between 'America first' and something else — maybe 'identity politics'.

Because those poll workers made cheating difficult-to-impossible, we can now see the scale of the cheating that happened in the last Presidential election:  approximately 14 million voters have seemingly disappeared since 2020.  Oddly, that election's vote totals were statistically improbable — to the tune of approximately 14 million votes.  Those who continue to hold that 2020 was the fairest and most secure election in U.S. history got some 'splainin' to do.