As I’ve noted before, Trump’s greatest “accomplishment” in office has been to convince his own party that he alone stood between them and cultural (and possibly physical) annihilation. As a result, surveys show that Cruz voters from 2016 supported him even more strongly than his own primary partisans as his term went on.
But what happens now? If he runs for president in 2024, how is he going to convince GOP voters that no one else can save them, when they somehow managed to survive four years with Biden? It’s going to be a tough sell.