Record Turnout and Biden Still Won

[Progressive Pessimist]

Yeah, it seems abundantly clear that this year was mostly a victory for anti-Trump Republicans more than anyone else. If anybody is satisfied, it's them. They were probably most of those Independents that ultimately settled the elections at every level as Democratic and Republican partisan straight-ticket voting canceled each other out. In this case they decided that they wanted Biden to be President but without being able to do anything. As much as I appreciate former Republicans voting for Biden, they were really shortsighted with that calculation (again! Like in 2016 too! What if Trump still won anyway!?). Even the Lincoln Project understand that Trump's Washington Republican lackeys are 50% of the problem!

[Progressive Pessimist]

Yeah it's pretty simple:  there's a lot of moderate conservative voters who don't like Trump

Then by your judgment, would it be a mistake for the GOP to nominate him again?

It would probably depend how Biden's term goes. I imagine that if the economy recovers and the pandemic ends, Biden, or his successor, can run on successfully cleaning up Trump's mess and reminding Americans about what happened the last time Trump was President and how bad things got. It's possible that Trump's reputation finally gets the due condemnation that it deserves at that point and makes him damaged goods for 2024.

Then again, when the country is in a stable point under a Democratic administration, American voters rarely ever reward Democrats for it and instead elect a Republican who squanders that stability, requiring for a Democrat to succeed them and clean up that mess. It's a cycle that never seems to end.