The 2024 election is in the rearview mirror, and now we need to start focusing on 2028. Yeah, I know that 2026 and the midterms are ahead, but they will take care of themselves if Trump can get his economic plans through and turn America into the 80s-esque powerhouse it can be once again. And yeah, I also know that nobody wants to hear about 2028 now. Too bad.
A failure to plan and prepare is inevitably a failure to win. Trump has one more term, and then he’s off to Mar-a-Lago forever. The Democrats, and some in the Republican establishment, are going to try to erase what Trump has done over the decade-plus he’s been in the political eye of the storm. We can’t let that happen. We need to keep this new Republican Party and its new coalition going. It’s not a matter of being on defense and solidifying our gains. It’s a matter of taking them to the next level.
But who can replace Trump? Trump is a unique character, one who has not only revolutionized American politics and reformed the coalitions within the parties but who has actually infiltrated the culture. If you watch sportsball, you see the players doing the Trump dance on the field after a victory. The Trump movement is more than just a political movement – it’s a cultural movement, and that’s important. Remember, many people in our new coalition – particularly low-propensity voters and young men – hate politics. They despise it and find it uninteresting. They don’t want anything to do with it. There are only two reasons why they chose to have something to do with it in 2024. One is the fact that politics was interested in them, and they were getting all sorts of woke nonsense shoved down their throats even as they were being........