"Tapes reveal GOP plan to 'contest' elections"? Fuck off with that verbiage, Politico.
'Contesting' elections implies something like 2020, when the courts were used after the election was over to bring (98% of the time unfounded) legal challenges on technicalities, procedural disputes, and mostly, conspiracy theories, on top of the GOP almost illegally sending alternate slates of state-level electoral college electors not elected by the popular vote from several battleground states.
This is one of the best looks we've gotten into the next step; directly sabotaging the vote tallying process. I've no doubt there are many other unrevealed pockets of sabotage out there, and again, especially targeting swing state metroplexes.
The DoJ, SCOTUS, everyone, really, has ehhhhh a 0% chance of navigating this very well.
The ideological war affecting the onset of American fascism is being fought along increasingly technical lines, and the fascists are developing a "technically legal" strategy to pull off the next palace coup attempt.
Obviously the effort shits in the mouth of anyone concerned with the entire idea of democracy or the spirit of the legal system, the better aims of western ideals, etc.
How are so many Americans sufficiently ignorant of history that we're sleepwalking into the Nazi playbook before our very eyes, faster than the Nazi party could pull it off? "Don't just repeat bad history, do it faster?"