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Having considered carefully the good contributions on this thread, I offer my own thinking:

1. Trump is not a child of the Republican Party, he is the very definition of an outsider therefore he is owed no loyalty by the party establishment because he did not advance by giving loyalty.

2. Trump has antagonized those who provide the very mother's milk of politics, money especially money from Wall Street, and so he lost support when those in power who subsist on money were forced to choose.

3. The role of money in politics has dramatically changed from the old grease and smear that lubricated the gears to a whole new level illustrated by the career path of Joe Biden but prevalent in both parties and illustrated by leaders such as the Clintons, the McConnells, the Pelosis and the Feinsteins.

4. The cost of electioneering has risen geometrically and requires huge resources to win at the ballot box with very few exceptions, such as Donald Trump, forcing an aspiring or even an ensconced politician to adhere to the huge sources of political donations even at the cost of potentially alienating the party base. Hence the alignment of the Democrat party away from its blue collar base in favor of Wall Street. On the Republican side, the establishment chooses to remain with Wall Street while the Trump base forces the establishment to choose between its own economic and electoral interest.

5. If politics is downstream from culture, culture is downstream from academia. Our academies have been thoroughly infiltrated by China and co-opted by Chinese money. More, our economic institutions have been equally infiltrated and influenced witness the craven submission by Hollywood to censorship by China, the kowtowing by the NBA to China, the collaboration by Silicon Valley in the implementation of the murderous Chinese police state and the abject sellout to China by our news media. An examination of the whole spectrum of our economy, our politics, and our culture forces the inescapable conclusion that China dominates all players apart from the Trump movement.

6. China is the greatest single source of money, including money filtered through Wall Street, Hollywood, Silicon Valley and universities into American politics. Our industrial sector remains dependent on Chinese production, Wall Street remains dependent on selling our infrastructure out to China and taking the vigorish, our politicians are increasingly reliant on concealed campaign contributions from China. The list is very long.

7. The man who threatens to topple this new corrupt but lucrative structure, Donald Trump, is owed no intrinsic loyalty, is personally offensive to a huge portion of the American public and an overwhelming portion of the political class and he is personally distasteful as well as financially threatening to many. It becomes oh so easy to rationalize corrupt attacks against Donald Trump as the necessary means to a moral end.

8. The combined force of all these factors reverberates and reinforces these interests to combine against Donald Trump. There is no personal reward, rather grave personal risk to reputation, pocketbook and even personal liberty (witness General Flynn, Stone, etc.) for any politician and, (God help us) any jurist who opposes these interests on behalf of Donald Trump because the power of these forces, obvious in the media and now increasingly obvious in the deep state and in our whole judicial system, intimidates would be allies of Donald Trump. There is no upside to waging a quixotic battle on behalf of electoral integrity in the person of Donald Trump and there is mortal political and personal risk in daring to do so. Hence, we see the support for Donald Trump in the election theft limited to those with very little to lose personally or to those rare few like Sidney Powell with rock-solid personal integrity.

Nine. The history of the last four years of the Trump administration demonstrates unequivocally that corruption succeeds and will continue to succeed without any real risk.

Some thoughts on your thoughts:

1. Trump is not a child of the Republican Party, he is the very definition of an outsider therefore he is owed no loyalty by the party establishment because he did not advance by giving loyalty.

President Trump advanced as a Big Donor; that's how he "gave" loyalty. For his investments, he received no "loyalty" in return from those he gave to once he stopped writing campaign checks to them and started writing them to himself.

3. The role of money in politics has dramatically changed...

The role of money is the same, but the source "of money in politics has dramatically changed." Foreign money, laundered through on-line credit card payment systems with no validation checks, is how China is buying candidates. It did start with the Clintons (remember the Buddhist Monks who took a vow of poverty who donated $55,000 to Clinton's 1996 Presidential campaign?).

4. The cost of electioneering has risen geometrically and requires huge resources to win at the ballot box with very few exceptions...

I've posted before that the cost of electioneering is directly related to the 33 Senate elections that take place every two years. It's the party bloc organization that raises the money and then distributes it to candidates who vow fealty to the party.
I'm postulating that the cost of Presidential Elections has "risen geometrically" due to the increasing cost of voter fraud, euphemistically called "get out the vote" campaigns. If we are to believe that Trump got 75 million votes and Biden got 80 million votes, that's about half the population of the United States. That means that, literally, every other person voted in a country of about 330 million people.

This is the nub of it. It's the Democrats who viscerally hate Trump for defeating Hillary Clinton and will do anything to destroy him, but it's the Republicans who don't like him enough to defend him against Democrat attacks.
Just see how Mitch McConnell failed to support people like Christine O'Donnell, Todd Akin, and Richard Mourdock; had McConnell backed them when they were attacked by the Democrats with fake charges, the Senate would be a very different place today. Contrast the "sins" of theirs with how the Democrats support Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Ilhan Omar, and Rashida Tlaib. That is the legacy of Mitch McConnell and how Republicans cast aside those who put them into positions of having to fight the Democrats.
That's why the Democrats have advanced the scorched earth strategy of forcing the Republicans into ever-increasing fights, because they know that the more devastating the fight the more that Republicans will cower from it. The Democrats win every time.
There was a reason that the Fedayeen Saddam ("Saddam's Men of Sacrifice") soldiers in Iraq wore masks.
It was because, by day they lived amongst the people as their neighbors. But when called to terrorize they put on the masks so their neighbors wouldn't know who was one of them.
That's what he have here now, the Democrat Fedayeen, the Democrat Sacrificial Army. They are called up by the Democrat establishment to terrorize in advance of major policy debates, and during biannual elections.
They are your neighbors. While you are going to work, paying your taxes, and providing for your family, they are plotting to steal the next election from you, to take your wealth from you, to indoctrinate your children against you, and to demonize you as enemies of the new societal order.

I'll use this post as an opportunity to repost my recent screed:

Here is what I've been mulling over.
It's no longer about the integrity of elections.
It's about the integrity of the people who did this. These were people in high offices of trust, who went into it from the start with fingers crossed and intent to steal.
This was planned, coordinated, and with an infrastructure that took years to put into place. Our elected officials conspired to undermine the Constitution and the rule of law for their own personal benefit.
The worst part of it is that these people who "manage... hundreds of thousands of local elections" are our neighbors. They shop at the same grocery stores as we do, they send their children to the same schools as we do, they drive on the same streets as we do, but they go to their jobs with fraud in their hearts and theft of elections on their minds.
They do this because they don't mind breaking the law.
They do this because they justify it by winning.
They do this because they practice omerta, where they expect not to be caught because their accomplices are just as much "in it" as they are.
They do this because they have no feelings of guilt about stealing the votes of their neighbors.
And we have to live next door to them and take it.
Openly stealing the 2020 election as brazenly as they did is about mocking us to our faces, daring us to do something about it, and knowing that anybody who tries will be quickly shut down by their officers.

-PJ