By Alex Henderson In the days before the 2022 midterm elections, anti-MAGA pundits ranging from MSNBC’s Mehdi Hasan to “Real Time” host Bill Maher had a dire warning: If enough election deniers and “Stop the Steal” conspiracy theorists prevail on Tuesday, November 8, they will attempt a coup in the 2024 presidential election. Their message was that “democracy is on the ballot”; Maher stressed that authoritarian despots like Hungary’s Viktor Orbán and Turkey’s Recep Tayyip Erdogan were voted into office and argued that their U.S. counterparts in the MAGA movement, similarly, should not be taken…