In a sane world, yes, voters would behave this way because an injustice was done. Cooler heads prevailed and the Democrats had two horrible candidates in Biden and Harris. Trump's apparent sanity and ability to actually articulate his preferred policies won over those middle of the road, independent voters.
But history often is told by its winners. In the absence of any real penalty, those who prosecuted Trump with lawfare and those who failed to report it in the media will be able to walk away and dust themselves off of any crime.
In fact, knowing how those on the Left operate, their post-election analysis involves asking themselves: "How could we have lied better?"
They used all the buzzwords: indicted, prosecuted, 34-counts, felon, etc. The only one they didn't get to use was "incarcerated." (Some of them clearly wanted to use "assassinated," but thankfully that one escaped us as well.)
I don't want to see revenge, but I think retribution is necessary. Revenge will bring more of the tit-for-tat; every election cycle will inevitably bring with it the question, "Who's going to be arrested this year?" After a couple election cycles, we'll be a full-blown banana republic.
We need retribution, where those that did these things to Trump are convicted and punished with commensurate penalties. Enough to send a message to any other politically ambitious judge or prosecutor.
I won't hold my breath.
I agree with your great post. Retribution for crimes committed will be the only thing that makes the left think that they can’t lie about what they did and get away with it. No matter what MSNBC and CNN scream about. I also think some leftist “news” people need to be charged as accomplices.