> Hopefully the next administration will work at actively reversing the damage, with incentives beyond just "we pinky-promise not to haul you at gunpoint to a concrete detention center and then deport you to Yemen".

Won't be enough to undo the damage. The US would have to do a full about face, prosecute crimes of the current administration and enact serious core reforms to make it impossible for things to drastically change again in 4 years. Also known as, never going to happen because even the current opposition party doesn't actually want structural change. The world has seen how bad the US can get from a single election, and that isn't changing any time soon.