Trump was claiming fraud long before the election, setting the stage for the three ring circus he unleashed after the election. He knows exactly how to manipulate the base and he uses his media arm to reinforce his lies. Trump rakes in a fortune in donations for him and his family from those easily duped and Fox et al rake in the advertising dollars. Amazingly Trumpsters are happy to be duped. Personally I think they thrive on conspiracy theories .
You are right. Consider their wrecked ideologies:
1) The NeoCon ideology to spread democracy in the region fell completely apart with Iraq. Personally, I believe that had Rumsfeld allowed the military to implement the CENTCOM plan, Iraq would have turned out much better. But either way, immediate success and the fact that ready-made Democracy didn't simply spring forth, the NeoCon ideology was shattered. They didn't even care that, seven years after the 2003 invasion, twenty-three Arab states rose up in protest for socioeconomic justice and democracy.
2) Trickle-Down economics was proven a con game during the Great Recession. The GOP led the first bail-out to mismanaged banks, which still seized homes and small businesses. Republicans made a mockery of capitalism and the free market by providing a life line at tax-payer expense. These banks and corporations went on to reward their financial leaders, who were firing American citizens with gusto. The rich actually got richer while the rest of America was waiting for them to "trickle-down." It was discovered later that, despite the bailout, the banks and corporations were sitting on almost a trillion dollars, proving that consumers create jobs, not the wealthy elite. And without jobs and paychecks, the consumers stopped coming, thus producing no incentive for the corporations to do anything but pocket.
3) The idea of small government and small debt is a delusion. Reagan & Bush widened government. Reagan, Bush, and Trump proved to be big fans of debt.
They really have no ideologies beyond that, thus their bitterness has led them to playing the perpetual victim, armed only with false rhetoric and sad agendas. Their 2A whining comes down to Democrats across the nation being gun owners too. Their abortion whining comes down to pushing their religion onto others. Their whining about "the lefts" communism comes down to blindly supporting a man who cozied up to Russia and North Korea. They rationalize by implying that only China is a communist. Their "support the troop" comes down to worshipping a draft dodger who routinely denigrates the military. Their Christian moral authority comes down to following their evangelicals as they grovel for a serial adulterer who solicited sex from pornographers and found pleasure in seperating families and losing kids at the border.
So in the absence of any surviving real ideology, the GOP built platforms merely to oppose. They went from supporting the argument about Global Warming to outright denying the science. They chose to argue against the national statistics on childhood obesity and promoted tomato paste and pizza companies as "liberty." They produced the Birther Movement. They invented Benghazi conspiracies. They pretended that "million of illegals voted for Hillary," making a mockery of Trump's win. They chose the opposite of all the world when it came to the virus. Without a real reason to support Trump, they pushed the QAnon nonsense as a reason. And after promoting Trump for his conservative judge appointees, they now dump them into their deep state fantasies because they won;t hand him a sceptor.
They are literally without purpose and without an identity.
Why didn' t Trump' s legal team take all their evidence to the FBI or maybe they did and the FBI said that it was not sound evidence. It' s their job to investigate not judges. Courts don' t investigate for evidence , they adjuticate evidence..
Showing that there is nothing there.