This morning for some reason I started thinking about the legacy of the Trump Administration. The administration will eventually end and the Republican party will eventually move on from Trump. (I'm not sure when, but it will happen). But the time we are in now are going to leave a mark on the party, that will be true even if the party ends up being controlled by people who are at some level anti-Trump has done and want to move the party away from the "aberration" of the Trump years.
I think the Trumpisms that will stick (no matter which faction ends up in control of the GOP) will be the immigration and racism. I think the Trumpism that will either fade away or be openly rejected will be the anti-trade stuff. No matter how much Trump personally likes canceling trade agreements and imposing tariffs, it is bad for business for the elites of the party. They are going to find a way to shove that part of the Trump agenda under the rug as soon as they can. They will stick with the racism and hostility to immigration no matter how politically untenable it becomes with demographic shifts. The bigotry, more than trade, is at the heart of what both the elites and the base care about.
