I honestly don't know if there's any coming back from this. I think it's now gotten to the point that what needs to be done is so drastic and must be so widespread, so all-encompassing, that there will need to be a purge of traitorous government officials that only a second Civil War could bring. It's gotten way beyond whatever plan there was.
To clarify: without the massive Government Purge there will not be enough political will to do what must be done.