# What will the Republican Party be like post-Trump?

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**Created:** [May 6, 2019, 5:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-will-the-republican-party-be-like-post-trump/833574 "2019-05-06T17:31:23Z")\
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**Post date:** [May 7, 2019, 8:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-will-the-republican-party-be-like-post-trump/833574/36 "2019-05-07T20:19:45Z")

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> [@HurricaneDitka](#):
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> +1 to this. I’m not really into identity politics, but it would be immensely entertaining if the first female president were a Republican.

This is prime “owning the libs” stuff, here. Ah, well.

Back to the OP:

1. I’d predict that the post-Trump GOP will have an Overton Window of policy positions in traditional foreign and domestic areas that I can’t predict until Trump is out of office. Who knows what he’ll manage to cement into GOP orthodoxy? It won’t be logically coherent, that’s about all I can predict.
2. I’m more confident predicting that the post-Trump GOP will confidently eschew any pretense of conforming to America’s norms around free and fair elections. My confidence stems from the GOP’s behavior pre- and during-Trump. Whatever they want to do (per point 1, I can’t predict that), they’ll be pretty brazen about cheating to do it.

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