Just finished this book. Anyone who now would take seriously the idea of tfg being President again, is like someone who sees footage of cooks pissing in the soup and rubbing utensils in their armpits, but still goes back to that restaurant because the Caesar Salad was delicious. 
The mental gymnastics it must take to even remain a registered Republican right now are truly something to behold. Raffensberger did the right thing in January 2021, but he seems so incredibly naive about the future in this interview. fivethirtyeight.com/features/brad-…
The people with the most agency right now are people like Bill Barr, Jeffrey Rosen, Pat Cipollone, Mark Meadows, John Kelly, Chad Wolf, Jared Kushner, and other Trump appointees who did not go along with "the crazies" like Rudy, Sidney Powell, Pat Byrne, Flynn, Jenna Ellis, etc.
Those "non-crazies" know what an existential threat Trump is to the future of America's constitutional democracy. Some like Barr probably think their phantasmagorical vision of "the left" makes the danger of Trump worth the tradeoff, but they're wrong.
It might only convince a small fraction of Trump's 2020 voters not to vote for him in 2024 if people like Barr, Rosen, Kelly, etc. forcefully and publicly tell the truth about what they saw, but given how small the margins are, it could make a significant difference.
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