You want real, actual politology and pschycopolitics? Or are you just here to kill time?
The important thing to remember is that what really matters is not the election itself, but the hegemony: the capacity to control and direct masses through political discourse.
Ask yourself, who has the hegemony in your country?
That is the actual explanation as to why the left is so desperate; not because Trump might win the election, but because the topics and themes being discussed by men are no longer dictated by themselves.
Their perception of threat is indeed disproportionate to the actual damage we can currently cause, but their reaction is not disproportionate. They saturate all means of communication of all countries with their discourse and thematics. What follow is that, if you are not paying attention closely, you might end up repeating their arguments or talking about the themes they set up you to talk about.
Having apparently useless conversations about race or misoginy is what they actively seek, thus internalizing the talking points into the audience.
They do not actually care about facts. They actually find that facts are annoying and interrupt the political processes. This has been a steady concept in left-wing politics since Rousseau avocated for the "noble savage"; reality is in the eye of the beholder, they sustain, and our institutions are just constructs that must be strategically disarmed by the way of thought. That is how they pretend to end all nations, for instance; by first eliminating your concept of a nation. It ALWAYS starts in your own head, because if YOUR concept of things does not change, then there is no revolution at all.
They do not really care about Trump's actual policies, or projects; the specific measures he takes are not important to them. What they do find important though are the topics in discussion, the language used and the cosmovisions that are subsecuently socialized. They know quite well they can reinterpret facts once they achieve hegemony so that those same historical happenings are understood to mean exactly the opposite to what they mean by itself. Their maxim is "thought controls actions". That is the truth why they are desperate: because they know they are losing control over your own thought process. That control is sustained by a firm power of denial of self-judgement: it has been established without your lucid consent. It has been established by way of seduction, deceit, false appearence, the irrational and the unconcious. It is a VERY effective method of control and direction.
Once you are rid of this, your job is not quite over. You have somehow gotten free from Plato's cave, but you now need to rendevous with other lucid individuals and form a vanguard.