This will pass and it will pass with a vengeance...that is what I think and feel.
I just hope I get to see that. Yes the political pendulum swings back and forth. I remember a bumper sticker I saw around 1980-81. It had a Paul Revere type on horseback shouting "The Republicans are coming, the Republicans are coming". And I did not believe it. But then we had two terms of Regan and one of Bush. Then two of Clinton and two of Bush. I think it was during the Clinton terms that things started to get ruthless. Then 9/11 happened.
After that, the media really turned on the conservatives. During the last few years of Bush it was like the media got super liberal. They laid the ground work for Obama. They kept saying that the Bush admin had failed. They blamed him for the housing/banking/mortgage fiasco. But that was put in motion by Clinton. But that did not matter. I was living in Nigeria when Obama was elected. So I was not really in tune with what was going on in the US media. I had conservative friends, lifelong Republicans, say that they felt obligated to vote for Obama in order to 'heal' the country from the 'damage' that Bush had done. Social Justice Bullshit! They drank the media cool aid.
I always felt that Clinton gave us GW Bush. It was the natural reaction to Clinton's policies. But I always felt that the media gave us Obama. But Hilary had a big hand in that also as did McCain. Trump was the natural reaction to the ever increasing left swinging Obama and Hilary sealed the deal. Even the media could not stop that from happening.
But now the left has moved radically left and the media is right there with them. And the left is trying to pass laws that will make it easy for them to stay for a while. It has become a daily assault on the minds and lives of middle to right leaning citizens. The media is full of opinions being touted as facts that push a far left agenda.
I don't know how many years I have left, but I am not very confident that I will see the swinging back to the right in my lifetime.