> where does the gop realistically go from such a point? "trumpism without trump" has never worked, with a horrible track record of hand-picked congressional candidates losing in historical margins (moore in alabama, walker in georgia etc.) you will have a divided party with the evangelical wing believing the election was lost because of trump's behavior and not because of abortion; business wing believing it was lost because of social factors and personal drama with trump covering up all the economic issues which was a far stronger message to run on; foreign policy hawks will believe the same thing as the business wing for why the election was lost, but think that the way forward is a hawkish response to iran/ukraine/china as the future of the party. thiel/jd vance wing, a new one, will obviously make the "trumpism without trump" case moving forward which they hope will attract the maga die hards.
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