One can oppose Trump, even hate him, and still feel very confident that he will leave office if he is defeated, and that any attempt to cling to power illegitimately will be a theatre of the absurd.
Three weeks from now, we will reach an end to speculation about what Donald Trump will do if he faces political defeat, whether he will leave power like a normal president or attempt some wild resistance.
Reality will intrude, substantially if not definitively, into the argument over whether the President is a corrupt incompetent who postures as a strongman on Twitter or a threat to the Republic to whom words like "authoritarian" and even "autocrat" can be reasonably applied.
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Ross Douthat is a columnist for The New York Times. Connect with Ross on Twitter.
