It's a mighty big IF. But there's two realities right now. We have to consider which one is Donald Trump.
The first reality is Donald Trump saw not only himself but those around him, that were tirelessly working to undermine and thwart him, elevated to God Like Status. They were going to swoop in any minute now and unseal the 1000 grand jury indictments and haul most of Congress and the 44th Admin off to Gitmo. Trump saw all of the Q nonsense and the Patriots blind wishful thinking. It was posted in his Twitter feed, it was Gab, The Gateway Pundit even reported the rumors.
And at no time, did Trump ever step up and inform his supporters who were living in a complete Fantasy world(if the first reality is true), and he's up there totally alone, and nobody has his back. And they are all trying to undermine him at every turn.
The Second reality is there are white hats working with Trump and there was real investigations going on over the lat 4 years, and Trump dragging this out through the election is just part of the thorough Swamp draining.
Trump is a very vindictive man, and will wait until the last possible moment to reveal his move. After all of the other plays are made against him, and every believes he is totally down and out. Could it be, in the coming days many institutions will be shaken to their core as mass indictments and arrests come down the pike? A move so great it sweeps up Biden, Harris and Pelosi.
An upheaval so great, that Trump doesn't want to be in Washington, and for the sake of his family. He wont want to be President while the white hats sort it out over the next few years.
There's no Constitutional path that says Trump can stay President after the EC Jan 6th outcome(forget the riot) the votes were confirmed. Did Trump tell Pence don't reject them, Did Trump tell his SCOTUS picks don't take the cases? His lawyers seemed to be on a Unilateral mission, not much input from Trump.
If Trump isn't President in 2021, then Pence isn't VP. But Pompeo is acting SOC right now. Boom! He's sure sounding Presidential and is channeling Trump's mannerisms, but with more panache and details to his accusations. No "If you look at the Numbers" esoteric dribble.
People who do engage in hopium and believe in it - that actually works overall because if there's no way to internally reform our government and nation, collapse is the only other option, and those that have been screwed YET AGAIN with false promises will be more open to thinking "fuck it, let it collapse!"
Remember the collapse of the USSR? Gorbachev had Glasnost and Perestroika and there was all this hope "finally reformation!" - but it never really happened? It was just empty words and finally enough citizens stood up and said "enough", that the military gave up and sided with the people after their endless stupid wars in Afghanistan?
That might happen, especially after the election was blatantly stolen.
Might be worse, might be better, but I'll tell you at this point, I'm willing to cut off my nose to spite my face. Our establishment fucking suuuuucks and it would bring great joy to me to see them rejected even more.