As the past decade has shown: once you start allowing fascists and oligarchs to infiltrate the political system, each election becomes harder to win than the last.
By now, it takes significantly more effort, money, votes, for the sane side to just be level with the populist fascist side. And this is about to get a lot worse: look at what SCOTUS approved *under* Biden, do you think they'll hold back anything under Trump? Watch as every future US election slides more and more to the right.