Look, institutions come and go but a robust and equitable legal system is the only one we absolutely have to have in a constitutional Republic, and it seems to be failing.
There are four basic historical paths from this point, listed below. Two are violent, two are not, and it’s likely we won’t know which one we are on for 10-15 more years.
1) The Republic Holds: slow but successful return to norms via the institutions and the ballot box.
Precedent- Italy, but they weren’t nearly as far down the path.
2) Chaos: some flavor of civil war (cold or hot) or armed domestic conflict(s) eventually leading to a new order. Precedent- lots
3) America, Humbled: lose a war with an ascendant power.
Precedent- Germany
4) SQPR: terminal but mostly peaceful decline and eventual collapse.
Precedent - Rome
The first path would be the most likely but requires the American elite to awaken from our hubris and recognize where we are. The second and third path strip us of it at a devastating human cost. The fourth lets us keep our hubris but we lose the Republic, even if we retain its costume.