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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What all of these analysises miss--and what has the GOP salivating--is that Trump's ideas resonated with enough voters in spite of Donald Trump, not because of Donald Trump.

A polished Republican candidate could easily co-opt Trump's populism without the baggage that almost certainly cost Trump lots of votes.

At this point, it's fair to say Obama was a cult of personality instead of a new ideological paradigm. GOP is hoping that whatever votes are accounted for by a cult of personality in Trump's favor are outweighed by votes that could be netted with a similar populist platform in a more polished candidate.

Note, I don't think Dems can make the same populist platform work. [/quote]

You might be correct but I think Trump has a similar personality cult as Obama did.
Also, many of the things that worked in his populism are really not nornal GOP fare: telling companies where to do business, anti-market rethoric, not touching Medicare/SS, giving everybody a magical cheaper and better healthplan, huge infrastructure/deficit spending for example. It's possible the GOP will be remade into some sort of Dixiecrat party, because basically that's what Trumpism is... maybe...if that happens then Democrats will become the pro-market pro-business pro-educated party.

But currently, a polished 'elite' GOP candidate would not have the same appeal IMO.
A lot of Trump's ideas are very much not GOP ideas. I am of the opinion that Trump won because he is Trumpy not despite being so.

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