All bad guys think that way except the totally insane ones. Dr. Evil is comedy for a reason. Everybody rationalizes things in their head to make themselves the Hero of their own story.
Huge? Have the election results actually been flipped? Nope. Will they? Probably not. They will invent some BS reason why and away we will go back to court over and over. They picked those states because every single bit of them is corrupted.
Think it is important we all agree ahead of time that Jan 20 at noon is the end of "Trusting the Plan." No matter what else happens, we need to be ready to accept that we are on our own at that moment. Nobody is going to save us, no magical force is coming. We save ourselves or we won't be saved.
Not worried about the military aspects. Worried about breaking the supply chain in all the ruckus. It seriously breaks and half the population of the U.S. won't live to see Spring.