I hope it works out as you say; however, I can’t help but think the situation is much worse than that and it will be difficult to recover normality even if the dems win the midterms and resist trump for the rest of his term.

From an outside perspective it seems like people knew what trump was like in the first term, had some time to reflect on it, and then decided they wanted another hit. The kind of propaganda he used to win is incredibly corrosive but apparently it works, and certain oligarchs have thrown their weight behind it to maintain their power. AI and deregulated social media is going to make it easier for bad actors (both foreign and within your own country) to pump it out at scale, using more sophisticated and targeted methods. I can’t see regulators controlling it given what your political culture is like, and how powerful the tech lobby is.

If your country is so fractious that you get one term for each party repeatedly, the republicans will win, because it’s so much quicker to break things than it is to fix them.

In Europe we need alternatives to American tech and weapons systems in case this trend away from democratic norms and rules based international order continues.

Edit: I realise I’ve assumed you are american here, apologies if not.