Can be, might have been, it’s possible … are not admissible criteria for evidence. That’s why 62 courts (including 9 with judges hand-picked by Trump) threw the bums out.
There is only one tried and true method of uniting a divided people – find (or create) a common enemy. I would have thought that Covid-19 would serve that purpose, but it was quite skillfully politicized to prevent a united front. Never underestimate the power of the propagandists at the Politburo.
Let me second that emotion.