From my perspective, the backlash has already been more significant than expected.
But, the embrace of racism, anti-Semitism, historical revisionism, anti-scientific and neo-fascist ideologies seem to be both an expression of generational counterculture rejecting the status quo of "liberal" and "politically correct" thought, and a reactionary movement by the right-wing political establishment trying to maintain relevance in the face of changing ethnic, religious and gender dynamics in the US. I suspect real societal change will take much more than a year or two, or even a swing of the political pendulum from Red Team back to Blue Team. It might take generations, maybe long enough for children to reject the ideals of their alt-right and neoreactionary parents, the way the yuppies rejected the hippies, and the hippies rejected the beatniks.
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From my perspective, the backlash has already been more significant than expected.
But, the embrace of racism, anti-Semitism, historical revisionism, anti-scientific and neo-fascist ideologies seem to be both an expression of generational counterculture rejecting the status quo of "liberal" and "politically correct" thought, and a reactionary movement by the right-wing political establishment trying to maintain relevance in the face of changing ethnic, religious and gender dynamics in the US. I suspect real societal change will take much more than a year or two, or even a swing of the political pendulum from Red Team back to Blue Team. It might take generations, maybe long enough for children to reject the ideals of their alt-right and neoreactionary parents, the way the yuppies rejected the hippies, and the hippies rejected the beatniks.