How will Donald Trump be remembered in 2066?

[Penelope]

If he wins the Republican nomination and the Presidency: One of the most fascinating and flawed Presidents of the last century, and a member of an elite group of one-term presidents who are actually worth talking about academically. His influence on politics and American government will be felt for decades to come, probably because of a progressive backlash to his policies and rhetoric, and for his lasting decimation of the Republican Party as we know it.

If he wins the Republican nomination and loses the Presidency: A modern Goldwater - everyone will vote for the more competent yet equally unlikable Hillary Clinton, yet many will silently think to themselves "my God, he's right!" A generation from now, a politician with Trump's style and at least some of Trump's economic populism will be incredibly successful and win the Presidency, and Trump will be rightly seen as a foreshadowing of this figure.

If he loses the Republican nomination: The man who single-handedly destroyed the Republican coalition, and indirectly caused the complete self-destruction of the Republican Party on a national level for a generation by triggering a literally bloody contested convention in Cleveland.

Sorry folks, Trump may be a blip in history but the values and beliefs that he represents are not. His ilk are no longer sitting silently on the sidelines, it's all out and in the open now. It's going to stay that way barring a complete and sudden radical change in American culture.