I don’t think they care, nor do they think it’s something to care about. I think for most of them “democracy” is a sacred religious state that has nothing to do with any method of decision making. It signifies holiness, not the day to day bureaucracy of government function. The “democracy” that is at stake for them isn’t control of government by the demos, but some kind of spiritual conflict within the American Civic Religion where Trump, as a political outsider not annointed by the system, is a god of evil threatening the ACR’s “good” god that they call democracy".

They’re completely insane. It’s completely irrational religious fanaticism. They’re not engaged in political struggle, they’re participating in a spiritual ritual where every four years they find out if their faith was strong enough and if the world will be ruled by the god of good or the god of evil. Absolutely delusional, fanatical devotion to a world of magic and spirits.

That’s why none of it matters, the death, the misery, the poverty. The world isn’t ruled by economics and policy, it’s ghosts and devils. They can’t effect the material reality around them, they can only lend their faith to the divine power that beats back their idea of evil, and if evil wins at the ballot box it’s because they lacked faith and spiritual purity, not anything to do with the vulgar material world.

Just fucking religious madness, it’s the only explanation i can beat in to a shape that fits this bullshit.

You can even hear it in how they talk if you can make yourself stop treating them as rational people. Their talk about the “end of democracy” and “the last election” isn’t expressing the collapse of the electoral system or a change in government. They mean it’s the end of the world. We’re in their eschaton, their final battle between good and evil, and they genuinely believe the world will end and we’ll have a thousand years of darkness or something if Trump wins. They can’t think of political organizing after the election, or of any political action beyond voting, because how could any action they take except casting their holy ballot effect things? They cannot act, only their gods can act. All they can do is perform the rituals their gods demand.