Desperation time. Their internals must be frightening.
Could be they are setting the stage for something dramatic, perhaps judge shopping and getting elections overturned in critical races, perhaps something more dramatic like riots in the street and/or a real violent insurrection to keep themselves installed. After 2020 we not only can’t rule it out, in fact we ought to expect it. And they will say “We had to save democracy, the stakes were that high”