You can't have return to status quo. Too much of checks and balances were already destroyed. Even if people started to long for what was before, which is something conservative people just don't yet, it would be impossible now.
President can be lawless and can retaliate hard toward his opposition. Supreme court approved that. That is reality now. It means Republicans can't allow opposition to get power again else they will be in the dame danger ... and it means there will be no real opposition.
When the party can destroy companies that sued them and fire regulators that forced their company obey the law at least a little, the game is lost.
