As Trump's foreign policy comes to a close, beware the return of old-school intervention

Even before multiple news outlets declared Joe Biden the apparent winner of the presidential election, the Republican Party was already starting to craft itself for the post-Trump era in preparation for the 2022 and 2024 election cycles.

But for Republicans, the Trump vs. Biden match-up was in some ways a sideshow to the main event: what the GOP will look like in the long term, after Trump leaves the political spotlight. Suddenly, the Republican Party is no longer exclusively Trump’s domain. He steamrolled the Mitt Romney-Chamber of Commerce establishment wing of the party over an extraordinarily short period of time; silenced, if not exiled, his intraparty critics; and molded the GOP’s entire foundation to suit his own political interests.