Mike Pence should something happen to President Trump, Otherwise, perhaps the next Dwight Eisenhower. The problem for Republicans is that that the last President to have the temperament of Dwight Eisenhower was Barack Obama.
This isn't the Game of Thrones universe where everything is destined to repeat itself in patterns ... how is that a "problem" for Republicans? Obama can have the "temperament of Dwight Eisenhower," and there can still be a Republican in the next 10-20 years who does, as well.
The point is that after Trump, the Republicans will need a Presidential nominee with the temperament of Dwight Eisenhower to win the Presidency.
I am not familiar with
Game of Thrones. I watch little broadcast TV -- mostly PBS now.
If you are familiar with the generational theory of Howe and Strauss, you will find that adults born in the 1960s and 1970s are analogous in many ways to the Lost Generation born in the latter years of the nineteenth century. The international Lost Generation includes some of the arch-villains of history, including fascists, Nazis, Commie stooges of Stalin, and mobsters. Satan Incarnate (Hitler) exemplifies the danger of a leader adept at communicating his alienation and bigotry to a vulnerable people. If you think that that is strictly a German problem, then consider an American who was very similar in many ways -- KKK leader David Curtiss Stephenson, a similarly-vicious beast. The 1915 Klan was fascist before Mussolini called himself a Fascist and was ahead of the Nazis in most of the 1920s in corrupting the political process of the countries that the Nazis and the Klan afflicted.
It is best that society leave the harsh judgment of others to people who have some moral compass, and not to those who have none. The best of a generation like the Lost or X leave that judgment to people older than themselves and allow themselves to be enforcers of law. Such figures have learned critical lessons the hard way and will do everything possible to ensure that nobody else will have to learn things the hard way. They are pragmatic and cautious, and they have few grand designs. Such is Eisenhower -- or Obama.
OK -- I despise Donald Trump. He reminds me of the sort of person who exploits people badly yet expects his victims to see him as a benefactor. It may be hard to believe, but the Southern planters often saw themselves as the best thing that could have happened to their slaves and that anyone hostile to the Peculiar Institution were enemies of the slaves!
I see Trump as a one-term President because he is an extreme disappointment to people who were on the margin for voting for or against him. He is not getting people to sacrifice their self-esteem or unfounded hopes to make America work better as Reagan did; Reagan effectively put an end to stagflation by doing what Nixon, Ford, or Carter would have never done by encouraging a concentration of job growth in low-paying restaurant and retail jobs that consigned millions to poverty but ensured that people still in the middle class could get good service from such people as college graduates with the 'wrong' majors.
Trump appeals to the absolute worst in human nature, fostering both self-righteous bigotry and elite indulgence at the expense of everyone else.
