It may be hard to see amidst the FBI’s search of Mar-a-Lago and primaries contested over the 2020 election, but a post-Trump Republican Party is coming, sooner or later. No man is forever. As Sparky Anderson used to say whenever his team lost a good ballplayer, “Babe Ruth died, but the game went on.”
Donald Trump’s time as leader of the party faces inevitable limits. Trump is 76 years old; he is barred by the Constitution from winning more than one additional presidential election, and a losing candidacy in 2024 would finish him as the leader of the party. His children have yet to demonstrate the capacity to replicate his influence on their own.
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