WASHINGTON Having lost his election for a second term, President Donald Trump , his campaign and his allies are ever more openly just trying to steal it.

In recent days, his campaign has welcomed the idea of disenfranchising all of the voters of Nevada, pushed to have Michigans 16 electoral votes awarded by its Republican legislature and alleged, without evidence, massive fraud all over the country in a court case in Pennsylvania all as Trump posts one lie after another on social media.

In Detroit, there are FAR MORE VOTES THAN PEOPLE. Nothing can be done to cure that giant scam. I win Michigan! he wrote Wednesday morning.

I WON THE ELECTION. VOTER FRAUD ALL OVER THE COUNTRY! he wrote a couple of hours earlier.

And campaign in-house lawyer Jenna Ellis wrote enthusiastically Tuesday evening of sending the election results in Michigan which President-elect Joe Biden won by 154,000 votes to the states GOP-run legislature: Huge win for @realDonaldTrump .

Ruth Ben-Ghiat, an expert on authoritarianism at New York University, said Trumps claim to have won an election he lost by 74 Electoral College votes and 6 million votes overall is a clear danger sign.

The red line is the election, said Ben-Ghiat, whose new book, Strongmen, puts Trump in the context of a century of fascist leaders. If you dont recognize an election, you have gone into the territory of a non-democracy. Its pretty easy.

Ryan Mahoney, who until early this year was a top staffer at the Republican National Committee, called the actions of Trump and his campaign dangerous and undemocratic and asked them to stop.

Theyre either purposely spreading false information and conspiracy theories and dont care, or they actually believe this nonsense, Mahoney said. Either way, theyre subverting democracy with evidence-free allegations. There is no evidence of widespread fraud. Its time to accept the results. Joe Biden won.

Numerous staffers at the Trump campaign did not respond to HuffPosts queries on this matter. Nor did White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany, who has been appearing on television for the campaign while continuing to draw a $180,000 annual salary from American taxpayers.

Nor did Stephen Bannon, a former top Trump White House aide who is now under indictment for fraud but who, out on bail as he awaits trial, has been broadcasting a daily radio show and podcast in which he repeatedly calls Biden an illegitimate president and falsely claims that the votes that were counted after election night are illegal.

Many of Bannons narratives have been echoed on pro-Trump media outlets, such as OAN and NewsMax, as well as Fox News prime-time evening shows. They even emerged in Trump lawyer Rudy Giulianis arguments Tuesday before a federal judge in Pennsylvania.

One former White House official, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said that Trumps statements on social media are not taken seriously by Americans and that eventually his legal challenges will end and life will go on, in all likelihood with a Biden presidency.

I think the country is fairly well-conditioned about Trumps tweets, the former official said. Our institutions are not in danger because of this. Our republic will survive.