I mean, even if he was a legit political figure, his odds went into the toilet after he became a meme.
The next GOP President is likely to be an establishment conservative who picks a few popular platforms of Trumpism and panders with them. Trump was a black swan event of a celebrity with universal name recognition who understood the mood of the electorate and had a brilliant electoral math team.
This. Let's not pretend like Trump was swept to the nomination because so many people loved his policy positions; it was more primal than that.