It's time to stop expecting that anything different will happen.

That’s true and your analysis is spot on. That said, this particular imbroglio (there are plenty of others) puts the lie to the “states’ rights” component of the Conservative mantra, and he is proposing taking a clearly articulated Constitutional prerogative and handing it to the Federal government.

Of course there is a long list of this sort of thing, from advocating for a national abortion ban to sending Federal police into (Democratic) states that are in ill favor, to using the national security apparatus for distinctly local problems and more.

There will come a time to remember, but then it won’t matter as all those Conservatives will conveniently forget about these intrusions in favor of some imagined issue once a Democrat is in office (assuming there are elections again, of course.)