Stories are the most important things we have, and the most compelling. That's why facts about, say, COVID-19, are helpless against the story of sinister Chinese agents in a laboratory. Or the less dramatic lab-leak theory, which gains traction because it provides a bad guy to blame.
Stories about stolen elections are more compelling than the fact the we counted up a lot of votes and this is what fell out.
Who knows what the fuck will happen now? There are times when I envy my late brother, who didn't have to live to find out.