On the national level, I am strongly inclined to agree with you. As far as the public is concerned, all is well (as the formalities have been followed), and life will go on in the political realm.
But as for the individuals this resonates with, the failure on the part of Congress to even take up and resolve this issue will be meaningful.
I've considered the federal courts to be corrupt and illegitimate as to 2nd amendment jurisprudence for some years; and Congress as inept and useless. So, this "new knowledge" doesn't change my impression of Congress. But now that I see the president as illegitimate in fact, I feel totally justified in seriously holding the United States of America as a banana republic.
This country is dead to me.
The consolation in this is that old standby of conservatives, perspective.
Things have indeed been worse, in any sense you want to bring up. And as Adam Smith said, there is a lot of ruin in a nation. And this one can take a whole heck of a lot more damage than this.
Cheer up, its not that bad. And whats bad can be fixed. Even in the most unlikely places.
We had a nasty liberal overreach in San Francisco when the leftist school board threw out the JROTC program. We thought it was gone. But we organized a petition drive and got a proposition demanding its reinstatement, and last year it won. And now JROTC is back, the leftists defeated, in San Francisco.