I still have faith. We managed, as a country, to elect a black man from Chicago, with a foreign sounding name. And maybe 2008, you could argue was obvious because the GOP messed up so bad, but 2012 was all Obama's win, entirely on his merits.
Fake news and Fox News nonsense and stuff is getting a lot of attention right now. But back in 2009-2010, I was deep in the Conservative Facebook circles of Hell, for fun, and it wasn't any different than it is now. The same bad news sites, the same tricking random people in believing garbage, the same messaging it is now.
I've also watched as the Democrats died in 2004, only to come back as the strongest party in just a couple years, and the GOP, dead in 2008, and a decade later controlling every aspect of government in the entire country except for the bluest of blue states. Parties rarely "die" for more than a couple of years unless they're going through a major re-alignment. But, despite people like Sanders wishing it were true, the Democrats don't appear to be in the middle of a major shift in their beliefs. And I believe the GOP is still a ticking time bomb and it's going to collapse any year now into total irrelevancy. Just because they won a ton of elections this year doesn't change the factors that are still in play as time ticks on and their beliefs become less and less popular.