For all the cries that President Trump’s challenge to November’s election result constitutes an unprecedented attack on political norms, it was only four years ago that influential Democratic politicians and left-leaning pundits were calling for him to be stopped from entering the Oval Office.

In 2017, the late Rep. John Lewis, a Georgia Democrat who died this year, refused to attend the president’s inauguration out of his belief that Trump was an “illegitimate president.”