Subject: Re: 18 USC 241 Intent
I see no empiric reason why the surviving D leadership would over the ensuing six years not have behaved in the same way that the R leadership has done.

Because their base wouldn't tolerate it??

I wouldn't. I'd be writing letters, and possibly even volunteering for someone else. And if Trump had been a D victor in the primaries, I would have voted R almost certainly (at least I can't think of a worse "R" off the top of my head that would make me vote for Trump).