Rich Lowry writes that the left will never recover from Trump:

Part of the power of Trump’s victory was that he was a pungent representation of where the culture was already heading rather than being a lone, if high-profile, dissenter.

Still, Trump has shifted the Overton window in the culture away from woke, and it’s hard to imagine it shifting all the way back.

While he concedes that the Dems will win elections and maybe make gains running against Trumponomics, they are unlikely to take the culture back to the fever-pitch woke days between 2014 and 2024, or to the dizzying heights of 2020.

I’m not so sure. I’m watching the way the Senate is approaching the big beautiful bill — they are taking Republicans back to 2012. Ron Johnson wants even bigger tax cuts (deficit spending). Rand Paul wants to cut out the populist agenda items, like funding for the wall, maybe more cuts to Medicaid. And Lindsey Graham seems to want to increase the House’s bid on funding for Ukraine. This big beautiful bill is about to become a repudiation of Trump.

Turning the GOP back into a party that is easily caricatured as being primarily concerned about lowering taxes on the highest earners while piling up debt for future generations, and doubling down on conflicts that have no strategy, is a great way to divide and destroy the large conservative-populist anti-woke coalition. It invites back into power a party that has only regretted, not repudiated or repented of, its obnoxious social agenda.