THIS IS CNN: How to prepare for ex-President Trump.

Someday, Donald Trump will become ex-President Trump. After a guilty plea from his longtime “fixer,” Michael Cohen, alleging that Trump directed the commission of federal crimes, perhaps that day will arrive sooner rather than later. But whether it’s a week, 18 months or more than six years away, we need to start preparing now. That’s because, for all of the threat to our democracy Trump poses as president, he may pose an even bigger one as an ex-president.

No one knows how Trump will leave the Oval Office. Maybe he’ll resign. Maybe he’ll be impeached. Maybe he’ll be voted out in November 2020 — or maybe he’ll leave at the end of two terms in January 2025.

If Trump were a real danger, shouldn’t we be preparing for El Presidente for Life Trump, instead?

Anyway, the Deep State’s ongoing effort to delegitimize 2016’s free and fair election is a genuine concern — and Joshua A. Geltzer’s opinion piece here is yet another small example of just that.