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It would seem that way. The people elected a guy that tried to overthrow democracy
How do you recover from that
You probably don't.
Even with a contentious subject like abortion. That's a disagreement about a specific topic. You can reach a middle ground. It's one of many topics to debate over and forge legislation regarding.
But the majority gleefully electing a guy that effectively looked us all straight in the face and said "I don't give a fuck about democracy and will attempt to subvert or overthrow it if it doesn't suit me"? Yeah, there's really no recovering from that. At least not without a long period of serious decline and suffering, followed by lots of struggle and death to earn back what we lose.
We disrespected the shit out of our democracy and everyone that fought/died for it. There's no way that ends well.