What the people who now want us to ignore the Fourteenth Amendment are arguing is that certain aspects of the Constitution ought to be nullified merely by their unpopularity—not even necessarily among a majority of voters but among a subset of extra-special voters. This is not a standard applied to any other aspect of the American Constitution in any other circumstance. It is an entirely novel standard invented for the benefit of Donald Trump. In effect, they are arguing for a set of unwritten Trump Rules that would exempt the former president from broadly applicable standards.
We really need to stop being afraid of how his supporters might react and just deal with it when it happens.
They want to start a civil war? Ok let’s see how well their rip-off semi-auto tacticool AR-15s do against the US National Guard and a few predator drones.