If Harris does lose this, you are not ready for how not actually (small d) democratic the 2028 elections are going to be under the competitive authoritarian regime. Who the Democrats nominate will not actually matter.

Right. We will basically have turned into Hungary at that point.

The is a very high possibility that the rituals of democracy will be there, but the substance of them - the ability to translate will into power - will be gone, like voting for a state legislature race in WI in 2012. What will be maddening will be the cultural denial that this is what has happened.