DAVID MARCUS: Trump's big win means Republicans have a real shot at generational power. Don’t screw it up

It wasn’t expected to beryllium similar this.  

Pollsters and pundits promised that the 2024 statesmanlike predetermination betwixt Vice President Kamala Harris and, now, President-elect Donald Trump would beryllium a nail-biter. But successful the end, it was a blowout, and it opens the doorway for Republicans to grasp generational power. 

Since 1994, erstwhile Americans signed up for the GOP’s Contract with America and ended four decades of Democratic control of the House of Representatives, our state has not had a genuinely ascendant governmental party.  

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It has been a 50/50 nine since past politically, with neither broadside capable to support agelong capable simultaneous power of Congress, the presidency and the courts to enact the benignant of sweeping alteration that Franklin D. Roosevelt achieved successful the 1930s and which Lyndon B. Johnson did successful the 1960s. 

A Latinos for Trump lawsuit held connected Oct. 3, 2024, successful Las Vegas, Nevada. (Hannah Ray Lambert/Fox News Digital)

FDR’s alphabet crockery of national agencies and LBJ’s payment authorities are inactive with us; they person this permanence precisely due to the fact that they were enshrined during prolonged periods of Democratic Party power. Today, it could yet beryllium clip for Republicans to instrumentality the favor. 

The biggest takeaway from Trump’s – pollster humiliating – win is not however overmuch helium won by, but who helium won with.  

Exit polls archer america that Trump won an astounding 46% of the Hispanic vote, an eye-popping 35% of Black men successful Texas, and won first-time voters, who helium mislaid severely to President Joe Biden successful 2020, owing to increasing enactment among Gen Z men successful their 20s. 

As Biden is truthful fond of saying, "this is not your grandfather’s Republican Party." 

Even suburban White women, supposedly his Achilles heel, broke for Trump, which is bully due to the fact that present they won’t person to prevarication to their husbands astir their vote, arsenic Democrats implied cowed women crossed America would. 

Since the opening of his governmental rise, 4 issues person animated Trump’s populist GOP: a beardown border, vigor independence, anti-globalism and warring the civilization war.  

All 4 are issues with bulk enactment successful the country, and if Trump, moving with a GOP Congress, prioritizes the halfway 4 caller close principles, determination is crushed to deliberation voters volition proceed to reward them with a increasing and progressively divers coalition. 

When you adhd to this a blimpish 6-3 bulk successful the Supreme Court, 1 that Trump could solidify should either Justices Clarence Thomas oregon Samuel Alito retire, you person each the tools needed to deconstruct our breached heavy authorities bureaucracy. 

The predetermination triumph gives the GOP a accidental to further unafraid the Supreme Court for blimpish justices. FILE: United States Supreme Court (front enactment L-R) Associate Justice Sonia Sotomayor, Associate Justice Clarence Thomas, Chief Justice of the United States John Roberts, Associate Justice Samuel Alito, and Associate Justice Elena Kagan, (back enactment L-R) Associate Justice Amy Coney Barrett, Associate Justice Neil Gorsuch, Associate Justice Brett Kavanaugh and Associate Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson airs for their authoritative representation astatine the East Conference Room of the Supreme Court gathering connected October 7, 2022, successful Washington, DC. (Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images)

Obviously, the large obstacle to generational GOP powerfulness is the Democrats, but successful the aftermath of Harris’ humiliating defeat, the enactment is successful shambles, and worse, has an progressively fractured coalition.  

Make nary mistake, Harris mislaid this election, successful ample part, due to the fact that she refused to instrumentality wide positions connected large issues, but however could she erstwhile Democrats themselves are divided connected truthful galore of them, similar Israel vs Hamas, fracking vs environmentalism, men playing successful women’s sports vs basal sanity? 

The occupation was not truthful overmuch that Democrats didn’t archer america who Harris is, it was that they ne'er really decided who they wanted her to be. 

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Now, I americium aged capable to remember, aft President Barack Obama was elected successful 2008, the oceans of ink spilled successful endless thinkpieces astir however Republicans would ne'er triumph again, essentially, the wide mentation of this precise file you're reading. 

In Obama’s case, specifically successful his 2nd term, helium and his enactment lurched truthful acold near that helium alienated the precise halfway Democratic voters, specified arsenic the White moving class, who would past elite Trump, and that is simply a informing for Republicans. 

Trump and the GOP indispensable debar the kinds of bait and power we saw with Obama, who, for example, went from lying astir opposing cheery matrimony based connected his heavy Christian beliefs to "evolving" connected his position. 

If the Republican Party tin instrumentality to the 4 cardinal level items that broadened their coalition, if they tin commencement to unafraid the border, bring jobs home, little state prices, arsenic good arsenic basal up for biologic world and a colorblind society, this caller GOP tin clasp together. 

Since the opening of his governmental rise, 4 issues person animated Trump’s populist GOP: a beardown border, vigor independence, anti-globalism and warring the civilization war.  

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Donald Trump volition ne'er tally for president again, but successful 4 years immoderate Republican will, and whether it is Vice President-elect JD Vance, Gov. Ron DeSantis, oregon anyone else, Trump has the accidental to manus them the keys to a enactment with the powerfulness to fundamentally alteration America for the better. 

This is simply a aureate accidental for the Republican Party, the benignant that doesn’t travel astir precise often. We volition soon find retired if they tin support it. 

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