QAnon and those who believe that the 2020 presidential election was stolen from Donald Trump are ridiculous. They are not the same as ISIS. This appears to be news to a number of influential policy voices, including Facebook’s former chief security officer Alex Stamos and Washington Post columnist Max Boot.

Those who claim that Trump actually won the election do so for one of two reasons — either because they believe it or because they want to consolidate their position with those who do. This isn’t to justify their actions, but as with the calls by some liberals to pack the Supreme Court for nakedly partisan reasons, conservatives have no dominion over disregard for the nation’s democratic values. Such widespread rejection of the election results is concerning but not existential — the election results were affirmed, and the voters’ verdict will be carried out at noon tomorrow. And at least in a judicial or political sense, the outcome was never truly in doubt.