You doubt that’s what’s going to happen here.
Elections are a sham already as it is, and once people lose confidence in the electoral process, Katy bar the door.
That’s pretty much what happened to the Roman Republic. Election competition got so contentious and violent, the factions could no longer accept gracious defeat. Basically because the loser not just lost the election but was judicially driven into to exile or murdered. People just lost faith in their governing institutions. Yes you are seeing the beginnings of it here. Will are different factions start arming themselves? Or use whatever brief periods of power they may hold to disarm the other factions? (I think we are seeing attempts at this!)
Read: Rubicon Last Years Roman Republic
Well, such folks had better be careful, because unless a WH occupant is forcibly deposed because he is a homicidal tyrant — like Hitler, Stalin, and so on —, I (and millions of others, no doubt) will consider the successor to be entirely illegitimate. Things will not be good for that successor.