It's not difficult to understand what happened. I believe it's an amalgam of factors: voting irregularities, mail-in ballots, Dobbs and the abortion issue, the disaster that is the republican party (Michigan, for example) and its incompetent failure to seize the moment, the Trump/McConnell factor, the influence of MSM and Big Tech (thinking of Dr. Robert Epstein's "Google's Triple Threat" theory in particular), external interference.

In summary, the republicans have failed to understand the election landscape going back to 2010. It's becoming more clear that Trump was an aberration in 2016. They don't understand the machinery and they didn't understand that taking an absolutist position on abortion (I'm completely pro-life) will not win elections. They need to speak with one voice as the democrats have done since Barack Obama became their thought leader in 2008.

If cheating is the only way to win an election in this increasingly corrupt society then the republicans need to get better at it. They can outlaw it if and when they ever return to power. The Road to Hell is paved with good intentions.

The republicans need to get better at understanding the machinery that gets candidates elected and gaming the system better than the democrats. Lee Atwater, young Karl Rove, and Steve Bannon understood this. That includes mail-in voting, ballot harvesting, the roles of the media, academia, the entertainment industry, and Big Tech.

There's no honor in elections nor among thieves. Just read "The Prince' by Machiavelli. It's only about power and it has always been this way