Just like the civil rights protests in the 60s it's about optics. The visuals going out over TVs of racist cops unleashing dogs and firehouse on children and adults who stood and took out like champs became unpalatable for Americans in great enough numbers it eventually changed laws.
This organized resistance today has 2 advantages over that. While it also has horrible visuals of trump's gestapo attacking children and families, it also has a major negative economic impact for 80+% of Americans.
The other advantage is the trump admin is completely inept. They are not able to control the narrative when they're this shitty at running things. Everyone in trump's orbit only lies to him because they know telling him the truth of how badly things are going will only get them fired. That means his administration is incapable of making adjustments to regain control of the narrative and strengthen their position.
The main reasons he won are because inflation hurt Biden's economy while democrats were terrible at controlling the narrative, and because podcasters and comedians online made trump seem like the"cool" alternative to uptight and stuffy democrats. Now, trump owns the destruction of the economy since January and all the gestapo shit isn't cool. The videos of fun, party protests and maga lunatics looking like maniacs are making opposing trump the new cool.
Remember, most Americans are complete morons. You don't win them over with substance, you win them over with sizzle.
But yes, getting out of this to any semblance of improvement is going to be painful and there's going to be casualties. Especially with the economic damage we're sustaining and the billionaire problem Americans are facing. It's going to get uglier and uglier before any improvement can be forced. Has to bottom out to cause change. This is just the beginning of the process.