"In keeping silent about evil, in burying it so deep within us that no sign of it appears on the surface, we are implanting it, and it will rise up a thousand fold in the future. When we neither punish nor reproach evildoers, we are not simply protecting their trivial old age, we are thereby ripping the foundations of justice from beneath new generations."-- Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn
"When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle."--Edmund Burke
The key is summoning up the courage to confront it.
One thing remarkable about Germany is how quickly it went from being considered one of the most enlightened nations in the world to the Nazi depravity.
Courage is a lot easier to muster when there is an organization to which it can contribute with concrete actions.
The state governments in Republican controlled states have been fairly moderate. Florida probably presents the best example.
The Fed Gov should have acted immediately against the unconstitutional restrictions on the free exercise of religion, but it was private lawsuits that earned what few legal victories there have been. This is testimony to the fact that Trump failed to get control of the DOJ, probably because he was hamstrung by the fake Russia-collusion coup attempt nonsense for at least two years.
There were also no follow on investigations to the vote fraud in MI and PA that was already evident (ironically) from Jill Stein's lawsuits, such as the Detroit and Philly precincts returning larger numbers of votes cast than registered voters.
Right now the best means of resistance would be states to come forward and publicly state that the costs of lockdowns simply outweigh the threat posed by COVID, and also to form a compact with red lines about gun control, fracking, etc., that the states will nullify should His Fraudulency actually take office. They need to back that with a plan to address threats from the administration and/or the Federal courts, as well as pushback against businesses that threaten actions if the states don't fall into line.
Gradually force any Biteme administration of the Federal courts into a position where they have to threaten to send in the army to get their edicts enforced.