You're too sanguine, David. As you yourself say, enough has already gone wrong, and the polls for the current election show that there are plenty of people who will vote for someone who is demonstrably both unhinged and hateful. The Supreme Court and Republican state legislators are turning things around all the time. Most people don't believe that democracy can end, or be severely curtailed in their lifetimes, but they must be unaware of how much it has already been destroyed. It's as bad as we liberals think it is because we're the ones paying attention.