The worst bit: Every time you hear something new that he does, you become more desensitised to Trump. And every time that happens you slide down the slope a little more.
Trump's crazy comments are not crazy. They are part of fascist language. He says what needs to be true to justify what happens next.
EG:
Trump: There is lots of vote fraud and I'm going to investigate it.
What he intends to do: Disenfranchise a bunch of people. (Modern day Jim Crow laws).
Trump: All these immigrants doing terrorist attacks
What he intends to do: Deport lots of people and persecute them for being Islamic
Trump has stated he is thinking of sending the National Guard into Chicago to sort out gun violence there.
The National Guard being sent into Chicago by executive order would end up with the city alight with violence and that would spread to other cities. It effectively would start a war. Probably along racial lines.
For him, this isn't a bad thing though. In fact its positively good.
This would give Trump the excuse to introduce martial law. This extents the power of the executive. In certain situations the constitution can actually be suspended (see internment camps in WWII).
By that thinking Trump has every reason to WANT terrorist attack, or riots or an attack on white coppers by a black man for he can use it and twist it for his political ends.
Do not under estimate how on a knife edge the US is right now.
I think the thinking is - plan for the absolute worst in your head. Go to the darkest places of your imagination and don't dismiss it as being beyond possible. Then hope for the best.
On the positive side the executive orders (Bannon is writing) and that Trump is signing do sound illegal. The problem is upholding the law and challenging these executive orders.
And Theresa May is over there making a Trade Deal by flogging Trump the NHS. So its not all bad news....