I suspect that if the world can function normally for awhile, the illness will ease.
I am quite certain that an honorable system of justice can provide useful consequences for over-the-top participants. But, I'm NOT confident that politicians will be held accountable. There are many who need to be shut down and held accountable. I really hope that happens!!! They are the ones with the skills to twist the truth and provide cleverly contrived arguments.
As dear leader continues to show who he really is, I think his useful idiots will gradually fade away. His job "approval rating" has fallen by 25% in a matter of days.
Those who keep lurching toward someone to believe in are the sad cases. First it was George W (the born-again former heavy drinker), now Trump (the pandering con man). Persistent followers of this type are the most conservative religious folks, like the woman who asked me during a light political discussion when George W was running for president, "Do you believe in God?" (God?) Obviously if I "believed" then I would believe along with those who believed in George W. They have such a need to believe in something (someone) less esoteric than God.