On January 6, 2021, many Christian conservatives had come to Washington to confront a constitutional regime they believed was increasingly arrayed against them. The founders—whom Christian conservatives believed were acting on God’s authority—had erected a mundane system of elections and representation that had worked well and fairly overall. But a narrative had been circulating within the movement for years, according to which God himself used elections as an instrument for reconciling the mundane realm of human politics with the sacred realm of objective, universal truth. Even though this narrative held elections in great value, its plot was not a liberal democratic one. By 2020, this Christian conservative narrative had long since replaced the liberal democratic story about elections, according to which people choose their own president through the intermediary of the Electoral College, with a spiritually authoritarian story about God having chosen Donald Trump to be reelected as president. God had done this, so the story went, to rebuke the nation for wandering from its Christian foundations and subjecting Christian conservatives themselves to persecution and marginalization. Seen through this narrative lens, the fair election of Joe Biden represented a cosmic victory for the forces of evil. Reversing that victory and restoring the nation to its Christian foundations would require Christian conservatives to obstruct a vote counting process clearly required by the text of the Constitution they revered as a Christian covenant.