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And I should try not to expect the worst. 
Help!!! 
But I think it might be a bit early to give up already. As for solutions- I truly cannot bring myself to imagine him in our house for longer, so I got nothing. 
and a bunch of right-leaning indies to rush to defend him against the evil Democrats. This was expected. But at that it's much lower than Nixon's, and don't they know it.
ProfessorGAC makes an important point also that Trump has no opposition yet.
In another respect, though, that's completely wrong. Trump's his own greatest opponent. If he isn't removed, there will be many months of self sabotage to come with the nation's cameras pointed at him. In addition, almost every week another shoe is dropping for him and the Republicans. If he isn't dropping huge ones on his own feet, they're being thrown at him by high-minded and outraged public servants or others of the criminal circles he operates in.
to fight off OUR attack. I'm guessing you're not overestimating their ability to react like us so much as vastly underestimating their fear and resentment of us and loyalty to their group and leader. At least, according to what I've read.
For a long time now, their dominant ideology has been opposition to liberalism and Democrats. Or how about Shia socialists as some have started calling us?! Whatever our label, the more conservative, generally the more they know we're the giant internal threat who replaced the commie threat of the Cold War era. That demonization justifies everything they do. Most aren't all that crazy, of course, but caught up in all this. Nixon and W were abandoned by some increasingly over time but only by the whole group when they finally were seen as "losers," unable to validate them and defeat us.
My best guess is that those "three top things" would work on some who've already become wobbly but still need to decide we're the lesser problem. So I'm wondering if the most effective three top things wouldn't actually be about us. If only we could.
not to appear sinisterly different. I seldom wear scarves over my head that might be taken for signs of a Sharia law takeover, but how not to appear socialist? I just googled "how do socialists dress" for clues and actually got hits. Those dated after the 1950s seem dismayingly similar to "how to appear liberal," though, and that's definitely sinister.
I do know how to look conservative, a style seen everywhere here in the south. I'm surrounded by older women with age-appropriate short haircuts who you just know, like an aura of conservative value, would never, ever go out looking liberal in tshirts and straight, unfeminine bobs after 50, much less without their makeup and earrings. And that's the problem. They just try harder, all the time.
Maybe, until a Wobbler Plan comes together to join, my personal contribution could focus on a less tiresome way of seeming less frightening. Whatever that is. ?
as god instructs, here and California. Been a long time since I've had to hide my shock. If they're happy, whatever works for them, etc. Humanity may have advanced to the age of reason and humanism, but a lot of people just aren't wired for it. Reminds me that a local children's science museum pimps fantasy and mysticism to lure visitors.
I've often thought of what you describe happening among the liberal left. We're emotionally bunkered and overloaded with guilt over problems we're currently helpless to stop. The confident idealism older people grew up with in the New Deal era, that liberalism and progressive government will always be the American way, has been smashed. Communications advances have been harnessed to erase understanding of liberalism from the American psyche and redefine us as the problem to be defeated, universal design, adjustable for any illiberal ideology.
Extraordinary passion was alive, though, when we Democrats elected America's first black president and finally passed national healthcare after 70 years of intense conservative and business opposition. Opponents are still trying to erase the legacy of the Obama era, including the ACA as a corrupt continuation of the healthcare holocaust, and they've all failed.
Oh, well. Tie another knot, elect more Democrats! I really do believe those advances heralded the beginning of our nation's next long liberal era and that, in spite of enormous, unprecedented forces against causing delays and backslides, the turning of that wheel can't be stopped. So, 9 months until we finally plant our flag solidly in the next era of liberal progress and our kids start learning how realistic great ideals can be.
