This whole thread is good, and this, to my mind, is the key point: actions like this are an attempt to pretend that the game is over, when the ball is very much still in play. Trump's faction is gambling because they're standing on a knife edge. It doesn't have to work.
-My last thought- these are not the actions of someone who has already won. Let me tell you what evil men in the fullness of their power do. They do nothing. They do nothing because they need to do nothing, because the world they built around them does their cruelty for them.
