Thanks for this, though I'm not happy for having read it. I know a lot of trump, voters and most of them are utterly unfazed by anything he's done. They watch Fox or worse (E.G. Qanon) and are impervious to anything that doesn't support him. Trying to speak to them is useless, like trying to deprogram a cult member. I have watched people I have known all my life buy guns, tell me Michelle Obama is actually a dude, rage that Bill Gates is the most evil human on the planet, etc. These aren't stupid people, which makes it all that much more frightening.
My only hope, in the event that Biden gets a narrow electoral college win is that Republicans in the Senate do what is best for the country, rather than their careers. I know, a very slender hope, but I remember Jeff Flake (Republican former senator from Arizona)saying that if the impeachment trial had been a secret ballot he'd have been easily impeached. They despise him, they just fear the rabid Trump base. My hope (which seems all that much more tenuous for having written it out) is that they will realize the gravity of the situation and put their fear aside.
Of course that assumes that Biden can even mount an effective campaign. At this point the plan seems to be for him to hide out and hope Trump collapses. He was always a smug, prolix, dishonest corporate shill prone to gaffes, but his performance in the Democratic primary, when he actually interacted with voters was shockingly bad: meandering Grampa Abe Simpson speeches, telling people to vote for someone else, challenging a guy to do push ups, snapping at any questions he didn't like, etc. He is in obvious cognitive decline and Trump is going to humiliate him for it.
Btw, the Hayes mention in the Hayes-Tilden election was Rutherford B Hayes, who was my great great great uncle I think. He lost the popular vote but became president.