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Suspending elections.
We have never missed an election in nearly 250 years of existence, even during the Civil War. If he does that, then America no longer exists, and we have no obligation to pay taxes, respect the laws, pay our debts, etc., and most especially acknowledge the government.
It is every man for himself.
You might as well be waiting for someone to go on TV and look directly at the camera and say, "I am a dictator" (which Trump even kinda did). We're always going to have elections because they're a valuable tool of controlling the population. Nearly every country in the world has them, including ones that are generally considered dictatorships.
Without elections, the only vehicle of change or expressions of popular will would be actions, and those actions are generally more disruptive and effective than voting is. We didn't always have elections in the first place, and we didn't vote our way out of monarchy.
With elections, people put their anger on hold for years, waiting for the appropriate time to express it, and the way it's expressed is by choosing a different corporate lackey to support. Gerrymandering, corporate finance, a compromised press, etc ensure that will be the case. Even better, they get people forming their whole political identity around their preferred corporate lackey and half the population hating the other half for it, making organizing on a large scale extremely difficult.
It's a very silly place to draw a red line. Even if it happened, you'd still "have to" pay taxes for the same reason you do now, because of force. What, are you paying taxes and following laws and shit right now because you think the US government represents some kind of moral authority?