....no sooner will the ink be dry on his resignation/indictment/whatever and the GOP will start acting like he was never there, and the media will play right along with it and declare that "the adults are back in charge".

Meanwhile the exact same policies and positions will be pursued by a new group of people whose only actual differences between them and Trump will be that they lie about it and put a smiling, shit eating, faux Christian grin on it.

And the saddest and most damaging part of all is that I also predict that most democrats will be happy to go along with this ruse, never bring up Donald Trump, and declare themselves "Excited to get back to work with our friends across the aisle."

I think the "old" GOP is dead. That's the party of Bush, Romney, McCain, etc. Your father's GOP. And the current GOP is on it's deathbed, the alt-right, Trump etc., is the GOP's dying gasp to stay relevant. They know that the Old GOP doesn't have enough support to win elections, McCain and Romney proved that. So they've shifted alt-right, where they have just enough support to make a little noise, but even that is coming to a close as their core voters are people in their 60s, 70s and 80s and they're dying off and being replaced by younger voters that are increasingly Democratic.

Which is why there will be no death or rebirth.

that's their easiest way out of this particular hole, and they have enough propaganda outlets to make it happen.