I thought about whether or not we should write off the country if Trump wins legitimately. (If he forces it, that’s a different set of considerations.) Trump explicitly backing White supremacists (the Proud Boys) again puts this in a slightly different light. A majority of people voting for blatant racist terrorism would make it hard to imagine having any faith in this country’s ability to improve, even if all of the broken democratic mechanisms I complain about all the time were fixed.