Just wait. What if this isn't the "bad" yet? That we're still on the early part of the clusterfuck iceberg? Just how more fucked up can things get?
While I have no doubt at all the plan is either to fortify the elections or somehow get the GOP back into Controlled Opposition status, another suggestion I heard that makes just as much sense to me is the timeline one. That the left was running on some kind of timeline, and Trump getting in disrupted it significantly. Thus now that they "dealt with" him they have to get us back on schedule even though they don't have the years of slow simmering to get us to accept this stuff at face value. Thus the "just shut up and obey us goddamnit" stance they're starting to take.
Makes me wonder what happens if Trump gets in in 2024. If they'll try and depose him in some way to get us back on track, or if they'll hope to regain power in 2028 and we'll just see some completely fucking absurd, Draconian Marxist Tyranny Speedrun edition in 2029.