"it is widely seen as a fever dream of an effort to expose and root out the imagined voter fraud that Trump and his backers have railed about since Election Day, locking a large swath of the country in an endless cycle of relitigating the 2020 vote" That's beyond "completely looney."
That's called tendentious writing in a full-on editorial comment in a supposed news story... by what used to be thought of as a serious media outlet.
I call it "Election Fraud Bingo".
See how many words and phrases that you can match to your slanted editorial bingo card...