The entire purpose of Ms. Stein's "recount" is to occupy Democrats' minds with something, anything other than the abject failure they've just experienced.
If the effort succeeds in temporarily delaying all three states' certification, denying a timely electoral 270, and it goes to the Republican Congress which will then vote for Trump and Pence, it gives Democrats a thin veil of manufactured satisfaction, which is more than the utter degradation they now feel.
If even this attempt to produce merely one ring of a political circus fails in the courts, Democrats can claim a different thin veil to try to ameliorate the urge of some of them to open their veins.
Democrats' "Titanic" has already slipped beneath the sea and they are attempting to rope a few floating deck chairs together in the vague shape of a ship that they might use to steam onward, if ever so haltingly...