What happens when a major political party commits political suicide?

[Metaphorical]

6. Cycles

At this point, the GOP is the party of the scam. Scams work until enough people figure out that they are being conned, at which point, the scam collapses ... but only until people forget.

The right wing had four years to do real damage to the government (look how hard it's been to remove DeJoy, and the struggle we're now having with unqualified judges at every level, including the SC). The media is moving away from Trump, but that doesn't mean that they're becoming any friendlier to the Democrats, only that they see him as an old and increasingly irrelevant story (and even then he has far too much influence).

No, we're going to be fighting this battle for decades, I fear.