My nightmare scenario is he doesn't go down fighting despite knowing how corrupt things have gotten. He loses my support if he does that, because it tells me all his talk of "if we let this fraud happen we don't have a country anymore" is just talk and validates everything the further right have been saying about him. We let cities burn and livelihoods be destroyed this summer because "if he sends in the troops he'll be called a tyrant and cost him the election", and it would all be for nothing.

If he refuses to leave and gets dragged out, I will respect his fight but it will clearly demonstrate he's not "the guy". It also means the guy who actually gets us out of this mess won't be able to do so neatly and cleanly; and people will be begging and praying for helicopter rides compared to what will actually happen to them.

If he refuses to leave and wins, I think he will be less brutal than the alternatives because he's a businessman and not a soldier.