How Can the GOP Keep the Base Energized Post-Trump?

Philip Bump: “With Trump now on the sidelines — in the unsubtle manner of Spike Lee at a Knicks game, anyway — the Republican Party is trying to figure out what its next phase looks like. The tension at the heart of that effort, though, is that Trump coalesced a powerful anti-elite strain of political thought within the base that first gained significant traction with Sarah Palin’s ascendance in the 2008 presidential campaign and blossomed in the tea party era.”