This could still be turned around, with some luck and effort. But it won't happen if the voters don't get out of frog-being-slowly-boiled mode, clinging to norm

This could still be turned around, with some luck and effort. But it won't happen if the voters don't get out of frog-being-slowly-boiled mode, clinging to normalcy bias. So in the end your assessment is probably correct. It's probably going to be a long, slow decline though.