PORT HURON, Michigan — People in the media, the Republican establishment, and the Democratic Party who still don’t understand the new conservative populist coalition that is today’s Republican Party (and who don’t care to try) often speculate what the GOP will look and act like after Donald J. Trump is no longer president.

Does it continue in his brash mold? Does it return to the more buttoned-down moderate frame of Mitt Romney?

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