It is a fallacy to assume you can easily rebuild what you've destroyed, especially if the destroyers are still around and fully intending to destroy it again.
I never said it would be easy. I admit it might not even be possible. Exceptional damage and harm might occur, to both institutions and the citizenry, before we can right the ship. We are in an objectively terrible situation. I’m advocating for a mental model where we don’t give up, and we are always prepared to exert maximum force against leverage when the opportunity presents itself.
To resign one’s self that the situation is entirely futile is not only unproductive, but intellectually boring. Are we not in search of interesting problems to solve for?