Suffering, the Buddha taught, is caused by our attachments, our clinging to things both material and emotional.  Everything changes and changes all the time, but we cling to them in the vain hope that they don't or won't change, and then suffer when they do.

And when we attach or cling to things that are delusory or untrue in the first place, the resulting suffering is even more pronounced.  It's one thing to cling to not growing old or the illusion of unending youth, but it's another to cling to a belief that we are other than who we really are in the first place.

When we attach or cling to a lie, we create the basis for own suffering.  And that's exactly where Donald Trump and the Republicans find themselves - they have created, out of whole cloth, a lie that they lost the 2020 election due to a widespread voter fraud that never actually occurred. When it's repeatedly proven that the big lie is just that, a big lie (as Joe Biden said in a speech today), their suffering repeats itself until they retreat again back into the delusion of non-existent voter fraud and once again believe in their own big lie.

Unfortunately, their toxic belief in the big lie has caused them to propose and in many cases enact, strict voter suppression laws to thwart the "widespread voter fraud" that never occurred in the first place. They are purposely making it more difficult to vote, and even more sinisterly, allowing politically based "certification boards" to decide which votes to allow and which to ignore.  In other words, Republicans are giving themselves the authority to ignore both individual votes and the results of entire precincts if they even suspect that there was non-existent voter fraud.  This obviously, would be the end of democracy in America, and the start of an autocratic regime.

In most likelihood, these audacious measures will outrage a sufficient number of citizens to the point that the vote will be so overwhelmingly against them that their attempts at manipulation won't matter, or the people will rise up and take back, by force, their representative government.  So ultimately, the clinging to delusion, that is the continued propagation of the big lie, will result in suffering, a popular revolt against their autocratic rule.

But meanwhile, we all will have to suffer because of the delusional attachments.