That's a realistic view to have, far healthier than thinking that a secret cabal of patriotic bureaucrats are working to restore America from behind the scenes. That's make-believe nonsense. The cavalry isn't coming to our rescue, any change will be up to us.
We spent decades looking for a guy on a white horse and GOT him but it doesn’t seem to have had the effect we might have hoped for. The Brown Shirt Media turned one of their own heroes (because he was) who had even won awards for his work in Civil Rights, opened Miami country clubs to blacks, into a violent white supremacist whom they have attacked relentlessly for years now. They really do have the power to bend reality anyway they prefer.