We’re scared because another Trump presidency would give more power to you and people like you, instead of the majority of voters. Most historians and political scientists agree that’s about the worst thing that could happen to America. And no, it’s not because you’re white or male; it’s because you are basically a dumpster fire of unresolved and unexamined personal problems. What you call ‘chaos’ is simply messy inefficient democracy. Because you are such a steaming hot mess inside, democracy gives you super uncomfortable feelings just as uncontrolled female bodies, complex ideas and darker skin colors do. So you have decided to ‘solve’ them by handing your will over to a big strong man who will punish all the people who give you bad feelings.
(Have you considered therapy? I mean, a LOT of therapy?)
Most countries at most times have people like you, but they’re usually on the far margins where their brains and talents have equipped them to be. But when the world changes too fast for the comfort of fearful people, ‘strong man’ leaders get a grip on countries where the will of the majority used to rule. Then state-endorsed violence and cruelty takes over societies where most people used to know how to treat each other decently. When that happens, informing on fellow citizens becomes a growth industry, ‘enemies’ of the government disappear, and torture chambers open for business. And that is when types like you have your moment.
We’re afraid because we know that once people like you get power over your fellow citizens, you do very bad things very often. Then to justify the last bad thing you did to someone who didn’t deserve it, you come up with bad reasons that they did deserve it, and why the next person will deserve even worse. Then your life will become all about justifying the next horrible thing you do to people who don’t deserve it by doing more horrible things to people who don’t deserve it, while high-fiving the others doing the same.
And when that happens, most people who have a secret sense of human decency left—even the ones you think are on your side now—will hate you and dream of the moment when you and your kind are locked away in jail, or worse. Then you will have to devote even more energy to hanging on to your power—and supporting the strong man—by making the world a living hell for everyone else, since a world that isn’t a living hell will have no place for either of you.
So the reason we fear a Trump presidency in 2024 is because we don’t want people like you to make the world an absolute living hell just to get some temporary relief from the things that give you bad feelings.