Will this election cycle make all future ones seem boring in comparison?

[IceSpear]

I mean really, what can top Trump?

[NeverAgain]

Trump/Kanye 2020.

[C r a b c a k e]

Ice this is only the beginning

[ProudModerate2]

With Trump in the primaries, yes. It is a bizarro-style election so far.
If Trump makes it to the general election, it will go down in history as one of the strangest in a long time.

[Blue3]

We thought nothing could top 2012 at the time.

So who knows.

[useful idiot]

It's strange, yes, but I also think it has become slightly boring at this point. It hasn't been all that unpredictable either, to be honest. Extreme media coverage of a fringe candidate with lots of celebrity and money nets him about 25-30% of the GOP primary support in a field of 15 candidates. It makes it hard for anyone else to get any real attention among the average voters. Carson was a standard flavor of the month. Kasich is the typical moderate candidate. Guys like Jindal and Graham are classic also-rans. I think we see Cruz and Rubio emerging as the two main serious candidates. Christie has the potential to make it interesting, if he can translate some of the buzz and endorsements he's been getting into anything substantial.

It certainly has the potential to become exciting, but only once the voting starts. Up to this point it hasn't been that unpredictable, except with regards to the fact that a good portion of the popular-level "conservative" media has at least accepted Trump as a viable nominee.

[Sir Mohamed]

No, but I've never seen a campaign like this (with Trump).

[Volrath50]

I found the 2012 GOP Primary more "exciting" and unpredictable, to be honest. While Trump is more amusing than anyone who ran in 2012, the polls are a lot more stable this time. Four years ago, you had candidates surging from single digits to 30% literally overnight, and crashing just as fast. You had a new "front runner" pretty much every month.

This time, you have Trump leading every poll, and all the intersting stuff is going on slowly, in the background. Jeb Bush and Walker crashed, for instance, but did so slowly and gradually, not all at once. The only sudden, massive surge was for Carly Fiorina, and that only got her to 3rd place.

[Maxwell]

Trump's campaign for re-election will be even more extravagant!

[Illiniwek]

The new norm...

[Phony Moderate]

I'd argue that it's still below 2008 in terms of excitement. Certainly above 2012 though. 2004, though my memories of it are somewhat limited, is vastly underrated imo, usually by those who have no memories of it.

[Landslide Lyndon]

If Republicans manage to take it to the convention then yes.
Until then, nothing can top the excitement and history-making potential of 2008.

[Negusa Nagast 🚀]

Are you kidding? Kanye vs Trump 2020 is going to be the greatest election of all time.

[Asian Nazi]

The Republican race is fun this time but the Democrat end is pretty damn boring. 

[Wrong about 2024 Ghost]

I mean really, what can top Trump?

A fascist transgendered environmentalist rock/movie star? But I don't think we'll see that candidate until the 2040s, presuming there's still a US by then.

Alternatively, nothing will ever trump Trump, because there won't be any more elections in the US.

(Only half-serious.)

[pbrower2a]

Trump today is the George Wallace of 1968 in many ways.

[Crumpets]

I eagerly await the 2024 election in which the Constitution is amended to allow for non-citizens to run, and Xi Jinping takes on Pope Francis for the Democratic nomination and Trump attempts to get a third term against an active insurgency from rebel forces led by John Kasich, and a primary challenge by a Vladimir Putin-Ayatollah Khamenei unity ticket.

Also PM Jeremy Corbyn reveals his true colors as an imperial irredentist and invades the US and Canada.

[Kingpoleon]

I eagerly await the 2024 election in which the Constitution is amended to allow for non-citizens to run, and Xi Jinping takes on Pope Francis for the Democratic nomination and Trump attempts to get a third term against an active insurgency from rebel forces led by John Kasich, and a primary challenge by a Vladimir Putin-Ayatollah Khamenei unity ticket.

Also PM Jeremy Corbyn reveals his true colors as an imperial irredentist and invades the US and Canada.

The Anti-Nazi Caucus.

[Mister Mets]

Probably not.

The Democratic race is kinda dull.

There will likely remain an appetite for outsiders on the right.

The dynamic for the Republican primary is likely going to be one of two things: The frontrunner wins, or The frontrunner holds a lead until voters start paying attention and someone else wins. Neither is that exciting by itself.

[GLPman]

2008 set the standard. That election season was far more entertaining than this one.

[King]

If not for Trump, this would have been the most boring election in modern history.