Democrats are illegitimate and election thieves.
This has always been true but historically the GOP fought it in a gentlemanly, passive and ineffective sort of way. But still.
However in their zeal to get Trump the GOP joined the dems in rigging the election and then making it virtually a crime to say it was rigged. They were corrupted and the dems know it and they see it as the green light to steal steal steal and don't care who knows it. The GOP is so invested in their 2020 rhetoric and declaring anyone who questions an election as toxic that they will sit on their hands and let it happen.