Win or lose in 2020, Republicans will soon have to contend with one looming reality: life after President Trump. The popular party mindset is that four more years of Trump will somehow permanently stave off cultural and political annihilation at the hands of leftists and their allies. This hope makes no sense.

While discussing his national emergency declaration recently, the president shared his plan to combat future Democratic overreach. Unsurprisingly, this idea only looks into the very near future. In the president’s mind, re-election is the answer to preventing potential power grabs by the opposition. But this strategy has a very short shelf life.