I think this battle is far from over.
You are correct. It is far from over.
What you touched on is the curse of Conservatism.
Conservatives must man the dikes that surround our society, and watch for breaks and leaks in it. That dike keeps out the sea of Leftism. That sea of Leftism places pressure everywhere at the same time.
It is tyrannical, unchanging, unsleeping, and relentless in the same way a mindless black ocean pressing against a real dike would be. When it finds a weakness, it creeps through and begins eroding to pour in its destructive poison.
For the Left, this assault is a one-way ratchet, for the most part. Territory surrendered to them is almost never regained.
Until Trump became President. He understands fully the unsleeping, unceasing creep of Leftism.