Republican (Party) Direction

The economic populist angle doesn't appear to be feasible because, even more than Democrats, they're beholden to their donors. The Koch org and Mercers and multinational corporations aren't going to keep cutting checks if they start trying to institute white nationalist social democracy.

They'll continue to publicly own the libs as a raison d'etre, Republican voters have gotten a taste of the hard stuff for the last four years and won't go back to genteel bigotry and authoritarianism. They'll begin integrating the elected Q nuts at the margins (start with electoral fraud - that's been a popular one with Republicans for 50 years) as they've done with Birchers and far-right evangelicals and so on for our entire lives.

Whatever mass changes might come have less to do with the GOP or Trump or heirs and how bad shit gets in the country at large over the next 10-15 years.

Provide evidence of the existence of a Nikki Haley cult. If there is one, I'm gonna be fascinated, because she's every bit as much an empty suit as Marco Rubio.

oh this is purely anecdotal evidence of my own experience. I've encountered a couple "you know who's like, impressive and smart?" types in the wild (aka certain professional spaces I've briefly inhabited). they exist. conservative girlboss shit