Let me provide you a realistic reasoning that it won't be as bad as this year.
First, lack of Covid. Oh yes, the obvious rebuttal is that they will just conjure a new thing or reuse covid. The problem is that the federal government has absolutely no say in how elections are run. The state governments are, and every state save Nevada involved in this clusterfuck is republican. This leads to,
Second, Trump isn't just dissappearing. Neither is he going to prison. They can try, but Trump can make that go on forever. So, we have Trump still existent, and rallying his supporters. All 71 million of them. That is a LOT of pressure he can place on state legislatures who rely on those votes, which leads to,
Third, There WILL BE election reform. Georgia already dips its toes into it due to realizing how well they are gonna get fucked at the ballot box by both sides. Trump's continual fire, the risk of being permanently shut out of power, and the simple fact that this is a clusterfuck that needs addressing means it will be so.
In short, the system won't become more secure because it suddenly grew morals. Its going to become more secure because in how glaring it was, it ensured that no result BUT election reform can occur. And the federal government doesn't get a say in that.
See above, they kinda -have- to. Its either that, or Trump leads a train on them and a brand, shiny new legislature takes its place.
Nah, this is the kind of thinking that lets below average milquetoast Republican incumbents squat in a seat and let catastrophe whirl around them as they are safe. It's the same kind of hooting and cheering logic that thinks that the Republicans dragging the social media and tech giants into congress is anything other than "see, I'm doing something!" theater.
To your first point, the politicians aren't the lynchpin of things like COVID hysteria, it's the media. Let me ask you something. Everyone seems convinced that the network media is going to collapse from no TDS to bank on if Trump leaves office. Do you think they won't jump to something else to sensationalize and maintain viewership?
They're already making sure the predictive programming is in place and people are ready to accept the new normal. Given that COVID was the lynchpin reason behind removing soo much of our election security and that if Trump leaves office it's gonna be one of the
few things that the media can harp on to maintain viewers, why would it ever go away? Look at the states doing the most awful COVID garbage, it's all dictated from the governorship. A single office determined by a statewide election. Praytell, how are those states going to unseat these types when they have election fraud machines and election officials set in place to ensure their seats?
To your second point, sure, Trump branching off and becoming some kind of media mogul to supplant Fox is great and a reasonable prediction. However, how helpful is that if we're still stuck with a bunch of entrenched RINOs and single cities controlling entire states? A media bully pulpit is only soo helpful against a fraud machine that can drop hundreds of thousands of ballots at the drop of a hat and get away with it. It would be naive to an extreme to think that not having institutional power to change anything or fight back is a stronger position. There is no stronger position than right now and losing at this point is the Republic's Manzikert, Our Diaoyucheng, Our Issus. I cannot feasibly see a way to pull out the roots of corruption through the system if this level of fraud prevails.
Third, naive. All you need is control of one city's political apparatus in certain states and you own it. The Democrats own Atlanta and have the rest of the state by the balls. If this is not overturned now, how effective are they going to be at overturning any election process changes? Look at Pennsylvania. The Supreme Court and election officials there have skirted the constitution in order to make changes that can exploited by the side with the more powerful election influence. Once again, you only need the one city to control a lot of these states and in Pennsylvania it's Philly. However, even the more minor cities like Erie, guess what, have the same issue. You are merely asserting that things must change because of how obvious the fraud is and how much bluster some of the Republican state congressmen are putting out. It's useless if they can't even stop the fraud this time because if they can prove the fraud this time then they can stop it. They absolutely can take control of the situation this time around. However if this ends up being nothing but hot air and bluster do you really think they're gonna dig their heels in the sand and fix their electoral systems once the eyes of the public have drifted away? That's another thing you're not understanding about the political pressure that is making these state legislatures act out. There is so much focus on it now that it's forcing them to act. So with the peak of pressure on them now, if they don't act on it now, why would they later. I can't see how that is a reasonable assumption to make.
The fundamental issue that all you

copers aren't understanding that now is when the anti-fraud hand is the strongest. Not playing it now and not dealing with this now makes it go from a relatively even battlefield to a virtual vertical incline of an uphill battle.
I need to make sure this is driven home hard and deep. If they don't fight now while they have the advantage, all your hope is just cope.