Trump is busy breaking a whole lot of things. Just by doing that, he is resetting the terms of debate for the next administration, whatever its ideological orientation. A restoration will be impossible. Some old stakeholders will have been swept away, and those that survive will have perforce already begun to adapt themselves to a world where the old rules don’t apply. We may or may not be able to build back better, but we will definitely build back differently. And that, I presume, is a big part of the point of moving so fast to break so much. Even if much of what you do is negative-sum, even if it causes you to become unpopular and lose the next election—even if it discredits you entirely—you’ve still made a return impossible, still set the terms for the next debate.