Here's some of the problems as I see it.

According to an essay written by Jacob Levy, McGill professor of Political Theory, Donald Trump's words are doing far more damage to the political institutions of the United States and the institutions outside of government not just in the United States but countries in which the U.S. has a partnership. Further, those countries' governments take those words in and know that they have to set policies based on what is being said as well as the actions taken because Donald Trump is President of the United States. 

https://niskanencenter.org/blog/the-weight-of-the-words/

Consider though that both right and left, the more moderate of those extremes, believe that it is possible that once Trump is gone that everything will go back to where it once was. The attitudes being that Trump's words are merely distractions and that the institutions remain. Checks and balances are working and that the country has survived worse events and periods in the past. But in fact words matter and ideas have consequences. Among conservatives, "Tear down this wall" "Radical Islamic Terrorism"  have had its effects. Go back to the end of WWII and Churchill's "Iron Curtain" speech had an effect on the entire world for decades.  

For example if Trump survives his administration or even if it is aborted, his words have created situations within ICE that would allow more anti-immigrant agents latitude to be abusive towards their captives. Other ICE agents who may not agree with these actions may leave and even worse behaving agents will be hired.  An entire culture will be in place that will take a very long time to be undone. Currently the State department is losing good diplomatic corps individuals and no one is replacing them.  It's the same in the Justice department. Eventually only the worst elements will rise to the top and set in place a culture that can't be undone even in the same time that it took to get them there. 

We expect comedians to lead the way by making fun of Trump.  They pick on his hair. They pick on his marital situations, They make jokes about his family. They make fun that Trump doesn't read, that he watches Fox news, that he walks around in a bathrobe, that maybe he suffers from Alzheimer's, that he tweets ridiculous things and they are called distractions. There is no end to editorial cartoons getting in on the action. And lots of money is being made as well by this form of entertainment.  But leading can't be done by comedy.  By exposing these matters as jokes our sophisticated selves are in on the joke and that the damage that has been done by Trump's words and actions, ridiculous as some might be, has been exposed and has now gone away.  We can not entertain ourselves out of this morass that the country finds itself in. There is real damage that is being done to institutions and the culture is being radically altered by Trump's words. We can not take these things as distractions or as matters to tickle our fancy any more.  His words attack the Justice Department.  His words cause fears of nuclear conflict to be a threat. His words encourage attacks by extreme right wing actors. His words help to legitimize racism.  It is a slippery slope from demagogic expressions to autocracy to dictatorship and the subjugation of almost two and half centuries of law as the governmental institutions roll themselves up and roll over time and time again.  

What has been done since the election campaign, the elections and the year plus that Trump has been in office can not be undone in the same amount of time. We will not go back overnight to the way things were. It could take decades.