Okay, we can pretty much write Trump off this election cycle. His campaign for president is finished. But Donald Trump would be far from finished even after a historic defeat.
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The life expectancy of a New Yorker is about 80 years. Donald Trump is 70. It is a reasonable guess Trump has ten more years of life in him, possibly more. What’s Trump going to do for the next ten years, more or less?
He’s going to be on TV saying crazy shit, that’s what.
Trump isn’t going to be a sideshow, even after losing. Moreover, every time he goes on TV and says some crazy shit, it is the Republican Party that is going to have to deal with the fallout. This election cycle isn’t the last in which Trump is going to play a major role. He’s going to be a big factor until he drops dead. Television won't decline any opportunity pass to have him on, rest assured.
So, that’s what the GOP has in front of them. A crazy old coot running the party into the ground and keeping it there. That’s on top of a demographic tsunami and social attitudes turning hard against them. Pete Wilson on steriods indeed.