The leftists never think about the end game. What will happen if they succeed in taking Trump out of the race and senile Joe is back in the White House after another sleazy election? Do they think that the millions of Trump voters are just going to go back to doing their business and let the country slip into a socialist hell? Do they believe that the increasingly totalitarian track of Biden’s first term will continue without pushback? I know that some on the left want a civil war or revolution which they believe they will win and in the ashes create a new Marxist state much like the Bolshevik takeover of Russia or the the Castro revolution in Cuba. Some on the left believe they will succeed in ballot box takeovers as in Nicaragua or Venezuela and the people will begrudgingly accept a Marxist state.
However there is the problem of what to do about Trump. All of the efforts to tie him up in endless legal battles to stifle his campaign are failing as his poll numbers continue to go up. Jailing Trump would make him a martyr. Joe Biden continues to go down in the polls, the economy is crumbling and Joe himself is obviously suffering from advanced dementia. Replacing him with another candidate at the convention is possible, but increasingly unlikely as time goes on. Then the problem of Kamala who would be a disaster if Biden can no longer function. The left knows that if Trump is elected it will be judgment day in Washington and they will be stripped of power. Sadly I do not rule out an assassination of Trump as the lefts last gasp.
Maybe the ridiculously long sentences given to many of the January 6th protestors is meant to deter people from even thinking about protesting the next election even if the theft is even more blatant.