Once it is demonstrated that these people, and their opinions, represent a fairly small minority, they’ll start losing steam.

That's one of the things I cling to for at least a tiny piece of hope that it can be fixed if enough people see that these groups that essentially call themselves the bolsheviks (literally the majority) just aren't a majority at all. I'm not sure it can happen, but you know for my own sake I have to give myself at least one positive outcome to think about.