I hope you're right.  I posited something similar to a friend in Seattle, who was distraught after Trump won the last election.  I'll also admit that I didn't foresee him either being as insulting and as poor a leader as he has been, but also I didn't foresee the economy doing as well as it did until early 2020.  

But a couple of nights later as she was feeling angry about what Trump's election said about racism in the US, I had the idea that in order to get to a new place, maybe there has to be a bit of pain. In other words, things had gotten mighty complacent since the Civil Rights movement, with many assuming that it was an unbroken line of improvement since then.  I told her that if Trump screwed this up big enough, the rebound from that could push things closer to what she really wanted to see happen.  We'll see, but maybe that's what DOES happen.  

I'm now more worried that all this pushes the country toward a Bernie Sanders (good thing he's probably too old to return in 2024).  I've already lived through that in Venezuela.  I'd take part of his agenda though, and I think expansion of single-payer health care probably HAS to happen.  

I'm rambling now.  It's late.