I think we're beginning to see how this is going to go.
We know that the congressional Republicans and politicos are well-aware of what Trump is, but they have chosen to sell their soul and play along. It's craven, but it's not really shocking. It's turning out that they'll be first to start peeling away, just to save their own skin. They're know what this actually is. MTG, of all freakin' people, holy crap, is the tip of that spear.
The last to peel away will be the type of people we see here. They haven't yet figured out that pro wrestling isn't real, that "reality TV" is largely scripted. While politicos have merely played a cynical game, the street MAGAs haven't yet realized what's going on. They've allowed themselves to look like fools, they've allowed their own damn families to splinter over this.
That's a whole different ballgame.