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Originally Posted by JPhllips
I think it's entirely unclear what happens to the GOP after Trump. Is there anyone that can duplicate his magic?
It would also help quite a bit if people knew what Dems stand for. Nobody knows what Dems want to do with power.
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Originally Posted by KSyrup
What does the Democratic Party do with the fact that Trump won the highest percentage of non-white vote for GOP since 1960? And it also kinda blows back against the whole "anti-minority" tag on Trump. Apparently - despite all evidence he provides out of his mouth - he has struck a chord with a lot of minorities.
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If I'm a Republican strategist who doesn't care about anything else, I'm all in on Trumpism. I view this as positively as a loss can be viewed and I'm more bullish on the future of the party than I have been since at a minimum 2004.
I see an incompetent blowhard who might have just become modern America's most successful one-term president from the political side. There's never been a better example of media bias to trumpet than this just-completed election. What previous Republican presidents failed to accomplish in terms of addressing the party expanding demographically by more sensible and traditional methods, Trump achieved. Turning away from that now would just alienate a whole raft of voters.
Going forward then, you hammer home the idea that if everything didn't conspire against him, Trump would have won. Despite all of his flaws, he connected. Protests against his election in '16 starting the day after by people who didn't even vote. Calls for impeachment before his inauguration and eventual impeachment proceedings on charges most people couldn't understand much less care about - there was never any silver bullet. The least support from his party's establishment and worst media coverage of any modern president by several orders of magnitude, pandemic, recession, and still he almost won.
Viewing Biden as a one-term target in 2024, you're looking for Trump Lite - somebody who is brash, takes no prisoners, in your face on the offense all the time, shunning irrelevancies like dignity of the office and traditional norms, but somebody who also knows how to park it when necessary. This kind of candidate could consolidate and retain these gains, and win in almost any other political environment. You don't have to worry about the federal judiciary moving back in the wrong direction - the Senate will ensure the best Biden can do is replace liberals with moderates. Help them if they want to nominate a SCOTUS justice anytime after the '22 midterms.
People like Bush, Rubio, nevermind Kasich etc. are the party's past. Going forward anyone more traditional or mainstream than Cruz is too weak to be your standard-bearer. Isolationism, strong borders, fighting back against the ivy tower know-nothing elites that constantly spit on the values of ordinary Americans and whose propaganda drumbeat only barely was enough to get Biden in office, keep the socialists out, etc.
These will all of course be exaggerated to the nines, but there are elements of truth in all of them to sell to independents when you remove the unnecessary negatives of a candidate like Trump. If I'm a purely politically-oriented strategist, I look at this situation and I see a winning Republican future.