Who will take the MAGA baton?

Trump is not a young man and is term-limited. The baton is going to have to be passed to someone ready to carry on his movement.

He has an immovable base who will do, say, bite however he tells them to. For these people, Trump is kingmaker. These voters alone arent enough to win an election, but who gets them when Trump is done? One of his kids? JD?

You have the far, far right. The Fuentes/Carlson wing of the GOP. They don’t especially like Trump, nor do they believe he’s still America First. They won’t care who Trump says is his chosen successor, they’re going to go their own way. This would be the Massie/MTG part of the party. I fully believe there are multiple people in this faction who intend to run in 28.

You have the center right, those who thought they were voting to close borders and lower prices. They are, or are becoming, disenfranchised by Trump’s self-enrichment and failure to control prices, not to mention his divisiveness. These are a bloc of voters who aren’t well represented in GOP circles these days despite their solid paleo-conservative roots…essentially swing voters. Could very well see a Bush reemergence to woo these voters, perhaps even a Brian Kemp run.

These are all very different groups with different objectives, opinions, and philosophies. Trump has been able to get them to coalesce via a cult of personality…he’s an adept salesman and has proven to be very effective in reading the public to be an incredibly effective populist which has allowed him to consolidate power over different factions. Once he leaves???

So who is the next party leader? Will Trump destroy MAGA on his way out, believing it’s his own and not to be handed down? Will he destroy the GOP as these factions turn against him? Is there a unifier behind him? Can JD, the most obvious successor, command a cult of personality to overcome divides?

Curious who yall see steering this ship in the near future.