Of course they will skate. Even if they "lose" they will win because they control the narrative.

By way of recent example, look at how the history of the Iraq debacle has now been re-written and how Bush, Jr., Dick Cheney, and other prominent neocons are being fêted by the Left and MSM. The same thing happened with Nixon and the revisionist history of the Vietnam War that began in the 80s under Reagan. The Afghanistan disaster similarly will be recast as a nation-building success when the Taliban co-sign contracts with western companies for exploitation of mineral resources.