If the American Republic was going to be usurped by some tyrannical racistfascist , you think Obama wouldn ' t do anything at all ? If Obama thinks that there ' s a 50 % chance that Trump will try to become an authoritarian leader , but a 100 % chance that Obama refusing to obey the results of the election will absolutly destroy democracy in the US , then yeah , I would expect Obama to obey the results of the election . Wouldn ' t you ? He isn ' t racist either . If he is a racist , you ' d think there would be ample evidence to support the claim . But there isn ' t . Uh . There was a huge amount of evidence during the campaign , and really over Trump ' s entire life . And if you somehow didn ' t believe any of that during the campaign , you should believe it now that he ' s appointing racists and white supremacists and other kind of bigots to nearly all the top govnerment jobs . What ' s more reasonable your argument , that Trump is a fascist and racist , or mine , that Trump is an opportunist and populist ? If Trump was just being an opportunist , he wouldn ' t have gone nearly as far as he did . Several times he went so far into his racism and authoritarianism that it badly hurt him in the polls for weeks if he was just opportunistic that makes no sense . At the bare minimum , he seems to have racist and authoritarian patterns of thought in the way he reacts to events . See above . Saying things and doing things are completely different . Assuming person X probably doesn ' t mean all the terrible things he said is a HUGE risk . And one that historically has not played out well . You have to be careful here . Reasonable people tend to just assume that everyone else is reasonable , and so when someone says something deeply unreasonable they just like to assume they don ' t actually mean it . But often that ' s just not true . People are stupid if they think Trump is Hitlerincarnate . People who pay attention see all kinds of echos of history in this election . Maybe the Nazi historical analogy isn ' t the closest one although there are parallels but none of the historical analogies for a candidate like this turn out well in the end .