Things may improve even if Trump wins.
Until now Republicans in the Senate have bent over forward to please Trump, or have at least stayed out of his way, because the party depended greatly on his voters. But starting on November 4th Trump no longer will have future voters and the party will have to begin to position itself for a future without him. So, at some point soon after the election expect O’Connell to have a chat with a reelected Trump about this revised reality. And O’Connell has things to hold over Trump’s head with which to persuade him to cooperate as compared to the last three plus years of servile cooperation the other way around.
Cooling the inflammatory rhetoric will be on the list.
Until now Republicans in the Senate have bent over forward to please Trump, or have at least stayed out of his way, because the party depended greatly on his voters. But starting on November 4th Trump no longer will have future voters and the party will have to begin to position itself for a future without him. So, at some point soon after the election expect O’Connell to have a chat with a reelected Trump about this revised reality. And O’Connell has things to hold over Trump’s head with which to persuade him to cooperate as compared to the last three plus years of servile cooperation the other way around.
Cooling the inflammatory rhetoric will be on the list.