Yesterday, 08:45 AM
I wouldn't count on that being the effect. It's very possible that a Trump party would draw more support from people who would otherwise vote Democrat than it would from people who would otherwise vote Republican.
A lot of the things Trump did as president that Republicans liked the most were things he only did because he was playing ball with the party (i.e. tax cuts, deregulation, conservative judges, token commitment to pro-life/social conservatism, refraining from pushing the increases in entitlements/farm subsidies/ethanol mandates/single-payer-healthcare'etc., that he wanted). Without the entanglements he had with the GOP, I would expect him to enjoy his freedom to support the policies he wants to in those areas, which are in every case a lot more like Democrat polices than Republican ones. That's on top of the more Democrat-oriented aspects he never had to give up even when he was a Republican, such as his protectionism, and his Hollywood/NYC foul-mouthed sexually libertine moral decrepitude. And you can bet that once he breaks from the GOP and goes back on the offensive against it, he'll be welcomed right back into the fold of Oprah Winfrey and all the other media big-wigs whose memories don't go back any further than their last quarterly statements.
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