In the long term, all this is doing is enabling Republicans, Trump, and fascists like Trump.
Without him, the GOP may recalibrate around "nice" Nazis like JD Vance who can smile and speak in complete sentences while lying through their teeth and planning to slit your throat.
Is that an improvement? Democrats would seem to think so.
It also means Democrats are increasingly the party of banal evil conservatism while Republicans are the fascist wing, and there isn't much room for anyone else.