The PBP/Reactionary deal on regressive tax cuts, deregulation, and conservative judges has been the cornerstone of the GOP since Reagan. Historically, the Reactionaries were content to let the PBPs run the show for most of that period, and were satisfied with a few public relations crumbs here and there. Reactionary deference disappeared, however, as a result of a variety of factors and events, including: the abject failures of the George W. Bush administration; the emergence of Fox News and right-wing web sites; the impacts of globalization and technological change on white male workers; threatening demographic changes; and legal decisions expanding the rights of sexual minorities, to the consternation of conservative Christians.
While Donald Trump’s economic ideas were impeccably PBP, his rhetoric was consistently Reactionary, which distinguishes him from all of his GOP predecessors. With his defeat, is there any hope that the beast will be releashed? Based on the overall outcome of the election, no; if anything, you can expect the Reactionaries to be more, not less assertive within the GOP in the next few years.