Republicans are realizing the "stolen election" thing is pretty substantially suppressing their voters.
So they're gonna "fix" it.
The story may be generated out of whole cloth. Or it will be based on some meaningless resolution passed by both parties in Congress that is just like "We hereby agree elections shouldn't have fraud in them"
QAnon and the Trump campaign will pretend they have decisively dismantled the Democrats' election fraud machine that won 2020 for them. We did it! Oh my god we're back in action! Now's our chance to take it to them and PROVE what happens when we have a REAL election.
Calling it right the fuck now. It's on the tip of their tongues.
COVID killed a lot of people, full stop. But we're also in the thick of a realignment, as Democrats ditch the working poor for the college crowd and Republicans scope up all the disaffected high school dropouts with Joe Rogan's Disease.
I don't think you can point to COVID, exclusively, as any kind of electoral culprit, because these voting cohorts aren't fixed. Look at how pro-war Reddit's gotten just in the last four years for instance. The bleeding edge of Ron Paul Libertarianism is now overrun with gormless Reagan Democrats.
I think the COVID survivors will be just as waffly as they were prior to the epidemic. And the party leaderships will continue to be a bunch of empty suits who simply exist to shepherd wealth into the hands of their local corporate bosses. So we'll see people doing the "I voted for D/R before I woke up and realized I needed to vote R/D" dance without really making any change in how the national government functions.