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

**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-will-the-republican-party-be-like-post-trump/833574
**Category:** Great Debates
**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, 8:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-will-the-republican-party-be-like-post-trump/833574/39 "2019-05-07T20:38:49Z")

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> [@HurricaneDitka](#):
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> This particular high horse looks silly when there’s currently an active thread in Elections titled “[Blue states propose measures to keep Trump off of 2020 ballots (unless he releases tax returns)](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=875037)”

There’s absolutely nothing wrong with codifying this kind of requirement. Demonstrating that you’re not, say, [directly profiting from your actions in office](https://thehill.com/homenews/house/387723-schiff-trump-deal-with-zte-a-violation-of-the-emoluments-clause). And of course, it doesn’t just affect Trump, it affects any presidential candidate who insists that their tax status is beyond scrutiny, unlike any of the last 50 years of presidents and presidential candidates. It’s such basic shit that it actually kind of boggles the mind that it’s controversial.

As **Little Nemo** put it in the thread in question:

> [@Blue states propose measures to keep Trump off of 2020 ballots (unless he releases tax returns)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blue-states-propose-measures-to-keep-trump-off-of-2020-ballots-unless-he-releases-tax-returns/833485/15):
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> Technically, it wouldn’t be banning Trump from running for President. It would just be some states banning him from appearing on the ballots in that state because he didn’t comply with that state’s election laws. Which is something states do all the time now. Granted, the candidates from the two major parties don’t usually get left off the ballots.
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> In New York, for example, there were four presidential candidates on the 2016 ballots; Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton, Gary Johnson, and Jill Stein. There were several other people running - Darrell Castle, Rocky De La Fuente, Richard Duncan, Rocky Giordani, James Hedges, Tom Hoefling, Chris Keniston, Alyson Kennedy, Laurence Kotlikoff, Gloria La Riva, Mike Maturen, Evan McMullin, Monica Moorehead, Rod Silva, Peter Skewes, Mimi Soltysik, Dan Vacek, and Jerry White - but **none of them met the legal standards to be on the ballot in New York**.

(Bolding mine.)

Maybe you should be asking yourself why you feel the need to paint basic anti-corruption measures as “cheating”. Like, if I was stuck in that kind of bizarro mental position, I’d have to wonder - where did things go wrong in my reasoning? Why am I defending _this_? (Maybe it has something to do with this: your best response to why they were obviously bad was to compare a basic anti-corruption step taken by every major candidate in every election since the 1970s to [partisan policy proposals](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=21625504&postcount=36).)

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