Great Essay, but I disagree with this point.
Let's assume that Trump is excluded from the ballot in these three states. He didn't win two of them in either election he ran in, so it might not matter. He only won Michigan once. So let's say for the sake of argument, the GOP puts a placeholder in those three states. let's also assume that placeholder wins all three states because Joe Biden is having a bad night. But let's also say for the sake of argument he wins all the other states he won in 2020.
The score would be 268 for Biden, 235 for Trump and 35 for placeholder.
Then the placeholders could just switch their votes to Trump after the first round.
Or worse, it can keep being deadlocked and get tossed into Congress, in which case the house will pick the president.
All that said, we absolutely should try to get Trump excluded from as many states as possible, as a message that what he did on January 6 was unacceptable, and remind the voters of what he did at every opportunity.