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Individual consequences, maybe, but not for some time. Consequences require law. The USA has made one person untouchable by law who can override any action without consequence, and they have misused that literally hundreds or thousands of times in freeing others convicted by court and jury. To quote Martin Luther King, "True peace is not merely the absence of tension: it is the presence of justice." and "It is not possible to be in favor of justice for some people and not be in favor of justice for all people." The USA does not have a working justice system. (And given how many apparently guilty people have walked free because they are rich in the past, possibly never has)
As a nation: The US has already weakened itself significantly in just a year, both nationally and internationally. Every historical ally the US had has been repeatedly abused and ridiculed by the person they chose to represent them. The damage from this will take decades to heal, if ever.
What it's really exposed is how weak America's much celebrated democracy is. That it can be subverted by a small minority who have systematically removed all effective opposition is surprising, and has made other democracies thoughtfully consider their own systems. The internet and social media has played a big part in this - we've seen tools of tribalism and hate used many times before, but never at such scale and speed as is possible now, and it's caught the entire world unprepared.
It will eventually, probably in the decades time frame you said. Look what Germany did and theyre cool now.