Reactionaries dream of recreating a glorious past that only exists in their imagination. They think it can be done purely as an act of will. They are contemptuous of experts. Finally, they blame evil outsiders and traitor elitists when they fail.
And they do inevitably fail, since they are swimming against the tide of history. The question in a democratic system then is, what comes afterwards? There are only two possibilities. Either the liberal democratic system holds, and the left comes in to clean up the mess, or the Reactionaries turn into fascists and completely reshape the system in order to hang onto power.
Those are the stakes between now and November, 2020.