In the meantime, they provide a major challenge for President-elect Joe Biden: how to govern a bitterly divided country that now includes many others who not only disagree with their policies, but see it as an illegitimate president who has only won through the mass. voter fraud, which has not happened.
“Trump’s forces’ effort to delegitimate Biden has poisoned our political blood so long that it can take years to recover,” said David Gergen, who served as an adviser to Presidents Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, Ronald Reagan and Bill Clinton.
Trump will leave the White House on January 20 with an iron fist on a Republican party that has been reshaped under his leadership. Once known for its country club elites and its adherence to military intervention and free trade, the Republican Party under Trump has a populist party. with a foreign policy of “America First” that has alienated allies and fostered mistrust in foreign and domestic governmental institutions.
“I think the Republican Party is now President Trump’s party, so its positions are the positions of Republican voters,” Senator Mitt Romney, the 2012 Republican presidential nominee, told SiriusXM recently. The Utah senator said he believed in Trump’s “huge influence” most likely the party will diminish to some extent as new faces progress.
But among “those who revolve around the 2024 race, beyond President Trump, it turns out that many of them are going in the same, more populist direction,” he said.
In any case, Trump does not aim to give up prominence because he is brazenly flirting with running in four years.
Trump “will be very much in the Republican Party,” predicted Alyssa Farah, until recently the White House communications director. Don’t expect Trump and Trumpism to “disappear into the twilight,” says Farah.
“It has the ultimate foundation full of life in fashionable political history,” said McCain, than any Republican candidate in history. And we can’t forget the voices of those 70 million Americans. “
The appearance of Trump’s long-term after the White House is a picture in progress.
He is expected to leave Florida with a small group of aides, where he will most likely continue to use his Twitter megaphone to praise his allies and attack those who come across him as he reflects on his next adventure. considering his role in running in a complicated position in 2024.
“Listen, he’s the leader of this movement. No matter what happens in 2020, 2024 is there for him,” White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany said at a recent appearance on fox news channel. “Their base is strong, they don’t, go out. “
It also poses an enigma for Biden, who will take the oath to lead a country that is more bitterly divided than at any other time in fashion history, divisions that were only exacerbated by Trump’s crusade to call into question the integrity of elections and overthrow. the will of the American people.
As a result, only 60% of Americans, adding only 23% of Republicans, Biden’s victory was legitimate, according to a recent Quinnipiac University poll.
Trump has attributed his defeat to widespread voter fraud, despite consensus among nonpartisan election officials that there were none. Of the dozens of lawsuits filed through the president and his allies who oppose the election results, almost all have been ignored or ignored. Fallen.
Gergen said trump’s long-term base will most likely depend on a number of factors, adding how the media will monitor him after the presidency and whether he will be concerned about legal issues, and predicted that Trump’s movements would make it much more complicated for Biden to govern.
“It’s going to be harder for a lot of Republicans to come to the negotiating table,” Gergen said. He added that Trump supporters will most likely “hold a lot of pressure on classic Republicans to break up too often. “
Charlie Sykes, a conservative radio announcer turned Trump critic who lamented Trump’s efforts to delegitimate Biden’s election, sees the possibility of long-term damage to accept as true in basic democratic institutions.
“Trumpism is going to be a primary force because it’s a cause and a symptom of our division,” Sykes said. “And it leaves a legacy of true misconceptions as true with genuine divisions, which Americans don’t really accept. as true to each other, not accepted as true within institutions. “
Biden is well aware of the difficult way forward to unite a divided nation, but his assistants expressed his confidence and noted positive symptoms such as General Motors’ recent resolve to replace the sides in his legal fight that opposes California’s right to set its own blank air standards. And they explicitly hope biden can attract some of Trump’s working-class voters with priorities such as strengthening American production and making sure critical materials are manufactured in the United States.
“We are realistic that there will be other people who will refuse to assist in the calendar of the president-elect for which more than 81 million Americans voted. But not all of them,” Biden’s transition spokesman TJ Ducklo said.
That will feature other people like Marthamae Kottschade, a self-proclaimed “Trumper” and a member of Trump’s Front Row Joes, who traveled the county to attend the president’s election rallies.
Kottschade, who lives in Rochester, Minnesota, said he still had his hotel room in Washington, D. C. , booked for inauguration day and hopes to see Trump sworn in as president, even though Trump doesn’t have a realistic path to overturn Biden’s victory.
He said that if Biden ended up in the White House, many Trump supporters were willing to worry more about politics before moving on to the next election.
“I know it’s a movement. We firmly as Trumpians,” he said. In a year, maybe we can have Joe Biden as president. . . We’ll have to settle for that. That was the hand we dealt with. “
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