A nuance of that warning that “Trump will never leave office if he wins:”
Trump’s aging, and he's not the healthiest guy. There's a decent chance he wouldn’t even live to the end of a second term. But democracy won’t just reappear poof! undamaged the moment he's gone.
What all these billionaires are bidding on — what Peter Thiel bought for himself with Vance, for example — are prime shares in the scuffle to inherit the authoritarian power Trump is trying to create for himself.