I know that sounds hyperbolic to many people. But I simply cannot see how, once the people around Trump invade and corrode the judiciary, the military, the quotidian arms of bureaucracies and public services that you engage with on a daily basis, it is almost impossible to claw them back without a dramatic conflagration that requires everything to be rebuilt from the ground up.
And history bears me out on this, over and over. You don't get your democracy back without tremendous upheaval.