A lot of what the Trump team does is intended to scare you, to make you think there's nothing you can do and it's all over.
The way to kill democracy is to get people to give up.
A goal of Active Measures is to get you to feel hopeless and scared. . .
The antidote is to get busy. Democracy will die if people give up on it.
If enough people want democracy to survive, it will.
How do I know?
Look at how Chile got out from under the Pinochet dictatorship.