Get used to it. First impressions stick.
I hope you're right. I am the eternal doubting Thomas here but hopefully.
I would prefer that he change his ways and stop the damage so that we have a political system worth keeping intact. Maybe we will have a Constitutional Convention and adopt a near-translation of the German Constitution, a constitution with far more protections against dictatorship and despotism than ours. Or perhaps we could have a Westminster-style parliament.
While we are terrifyingly close to the GOP being able to re-write the Constitution, the only nation they're interested in emulating is the Republic of Gilead.