Is it possible to vote for Trump in 2024 and be a good person?

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I don't know for sure on the question, but I can say definitively that anyone who votes for Trump is a bad American. Our democracy is a fundamental part of what it is to be "American" and Trump is actively opposed to it.

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Trump was already denying the 2020 election results on Election Night, spent months insisting that he had won when he conclusively lost and was repeatedly told this by his advisors. He filed dozens of lawsuits, and those lawsuits weren't seeking some kind of recount or even a revote, just for the courts to throw out the results and declare him the winner.

When that failed, he told his supporters another lie, that Mike Pence could unilaterally overturn the results and declare Trump the winner, but was refusing to do it. He then directed them to go to the Capitol and "fight like Hell" to make it happen. Believing they were following his direct instructions, a mob of thousands of his supporters entered the Capitol with the intention of violently forcing Congress to declare Trump the winner. It is often glossed over how close we came to having a tragedy that day, and without the heroic actions of Eugene Goodman, it's likely many members of Congress would have been murdered. Even after this coup was averted, Trump continues to tell his supporters he won, and he has even promised to pardon and free the terrorists who stormed the Capitol.

So no, I'm not going to casually shrug off the possibility of Trump winning again with "well, we have checks and balances in place," and while I don't know if 100% of his supporters are "bad people," I do that his supporters (100% of them) don't have the same "American" values that I used to think we basically all have. It's a real shock to the system to learn that millions of Americans don't value our democratic process (what I consider the very essence of being "American") in the way we thought they did.