Certainly, some grassroots Republicans, tired of the rhetoric and behavior from Trump, as well as senators like South Carolina’s Lindsey Graham, Missouri’s Josh Hawley and Texas’s Ted Cruz, continue to leave the party. And some of Trump’s defenders and supporters, like his United Nations ambassador, Nikki Haley, are trying to reposition themselves for a post-Trump era by now criticizing the former president.
But the GOP has changed at the grassroots level over the past two decades, making it difficult for pragmatists and establishment conservatives to regain control of the party.
Trump’s white, working-class message continues to resonate among rural voters, white evangelicals and whites without a college degree, who see themselves under attack.
Even with Biden in the White House, Republican voters will readily believe the Trump/GOP message that the Democrats are socialists and abortionists, that immigrants will change our culture, and that the Deep State needs to be ferreted out and destroyed.
In other words, the America First message that proved so effective for Trump from his entry into the 2016 presidential race to the 2020 election is likely to continue to have great appeal in the party.
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