Well it’s likely to move some distance in that direction, and not away, though who knows how much.

Really it would be a recognition that a realignment already took place, that the “do the 80s but harder” stuff isn’t so much Reaganite but Kempist – trying to service a “pillars of society” coalition of bankers, professionals, local gentry and the suburban white middle class. Which might have been the environment senior GOP pols were shaped by but no longer bears much resemblance to the situation on the ground.