How does the GOP rebrand and reinvent nationally as a party?

[Insomnian]

It won't occur through these arbitrary impositions. It will occur via the path of least resistance made possible via a group alienated from the other party.

Yes. And the path of least resistance is clearly just doing Trump 2.0, but with lots of pandering towards Latinos. Keep Trump-like stances on foreign policy and trade and deficits and policing, but moderate on immigration.

It's probably the inevitable outcome since I think moderate Latinos are the lowest-hanging fruit in the Democratic coalition for Republicans.

[Insomnian]

The GOP won't have the face of Trump in office, come 2021. They will have DeSantis in office who would be the frontrunner for the GOP nomination come 2024; however, Dems have maintained a lead in the popular vote, since 2000 and it would be very hard for the GOP to match that, without, somehow getting in, like Trump, on a technicality with the EC college, they have lost the popular vote 4/5 elections.

2016 was probably an abberation in the gap between PV/EC, because presidential campaigns usually don't try to campaign in "safe" states, like the Clinton campaign in California or Illinois. I don't think the GOP can count on a permanent electoral college advantage (that's crazy-talk lol).

[Insomnian]

It won't occur through these arbitrary impositions. It will occur via the path of least resistance made possible via a group alienated from the other party.

Yes. And the path of least resistance is clearly just doing Trump 2.0, but with lots of pandering towards Latinos. Keep Trump-like stances on foreign policy and trade and deficits and policing, but moderate on immigration.

It's probably the inevitable outcome since I think moderate Latinos are the lowest-hanging fruit in the Democratic coalition for Republicans.

Agreed. I definitely see the GOP in the next twenty years or so being able to make up significant ground with Latinos. They’re more rural and less college educated than Asians and without the shared history of AAs. So on paper I think they’re the most likely non white group to inevitably become more Republican.

I mean, they also might just become white people. https://prospect.org/article/latino-flight-whiteness