It's worse than all that. The worst thing they have done is permanently make the US a nation that can no longer claim to be better than all the other theocracies and other dictatorships that disappear people, ignore any concept of privacy, operate private para-militaries "off the books", torture people to death, operatate without rule of law or public accountability, and believe that "emergency" and religious righteousness conveys total power to the executive over all concept of law. The United States is permanently altered.
I really think the change is permanent, or as permanent as anything in history. For one thing, as they always do in these cases, people applaud the change. The majority of Americans want to live in an Iran-style theocratic dictatorship and will not only vote for that but will mobilize and fund campaigns for it. It took 230 years, but we've proved that government by the people is incompatible with a free society.
In addition, to be more specific, US policy under the people we put in absolute power has created a long term, well organized and well funded, enemy out of what used to be a handful of kooks. It has also created whole regions of the world where such forces thrive from what used to be some extremelylimited fringe places, mostly in very remote Afganistan. In other words, they've turned their excuse to expand a warfare and police state into a very real long term threat of global violence.
All that just means more of the same, under any President. Count on it.
Keep buying those SUVs. Keep running on credit. Keep going to church. Keep up your hate. Keep your head in the sand.
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