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Trump is a terrible authoritarian autocrat
Ever since Donald J. Trump was elected American President in 2016—and during Trump's entire presidential campaign—the single biggest reason why one must not ever elect Donald Trump into the White House is because he's Hitler and—before long—all Jews, immigrants, minorities, undocumented workers, refugees, LGBTTQQIAAP, and probably Chinese-Americans—would soon all be either in camps or being led into gas chambers or the direst of prisons or gulags.
This hasn't actually happened at all. In any way that can be substantiated and this is a problem for the upcoming November 3rd, 2020, Presidential election because when you run a campaign that guarantees a Trump-led American holocaust and it doesn't come, then there's a pretty good chance that anything less than a complete redux of Nazi Germany writ large and led by authoritarian Donald Trump and his nefarious autocrats, people tend to breathe a sign of relief.
Of course, what will happen now, is that the narrative will remain the same but it'll be reframed as, "Trump didn't enact his final solution during his first term because he wanted to be reëlected . . . just wait until his second term in office! He'll take off his gloves and finally enact all of his totalitarian, authoritarian, and autocratic plans the moment everyone is fooled into voting for him. The moment he's reinaugurated on January 20, 2021, he will release the winged monkeys and the purge will begin." Or something like that.
So, I am pretty afraid that this cognitive dissonance—occurring when a person holds contradictory beliefs, ideas, or values, and is typically experienced as psychological stress when they participate in an action that goes against one or more of them—will collapse the unstable, extremely-fragile, house of cards, that has been built by the Democrats on a foundation that needs Trump to not simply be a bunga bunga Berlusconi or a vainglorious Mussolini but a fully-committed Hitler.
Here's the thing: Trump has never been or will ever be a true believer, an ideologue: he doesn't believed in anything at all ever except wealth and power—probably only attention and the approval of his father—and that's a nothing burger when it comes to ever becoming anything close to the True Antichrist.
If Americans feel like they're being gas lighted (gas lit?), they'll respond very aggressively against that, and this might very well drive American voters into the arms of Innoquous Hitler, Lame Hitler, Gelded Hitler. They will dismiss the entire anti-Trump, anyone but Trump, Trump is not my President, Resist, why not Biden, campaign as being a Godwin's law (or Godwin's rule of Hitler analogies) done on a National Political Stage:
"The theory that as any presidential discussion progresses, it becomes inevitable that Trump will eventually be compared to Adolf Hitler, regardless of the original topic."
While the New York Times, CNN, the Washington Post, CNBC, ABC, NBC, CBS, Hulu, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and all the second-tier mainstream media outlets will get rich on DNC, Biden/Harris, and Super-PAC money, I wouldn't put too much money on the chance of the Biden/Harris ticket winning this Fall. Americans really hate hypocricy and hate being lied to and while Trump lies constantly and without cessassion, he's completely transparent about it, making him strangely transparent and authentic.
He is what he is, alas.
Americans always prefer flawed transparent than they like a savvy city slicker. While I don't wish this on anyone—I don't like either candidate at all—I call a Trump victory that will, oddly enough, be more definite than winning by strategic electoral votes, possibly even winning the popular vote.