Originally Posted by
Dan Druff
It's not going to last, just as certain Republican gains in 1994 and 2010 did not last.
Sometimes the midterms will swing a district the other way because of unhappiness with the current President.
As Trump is very polarizing, and as he is quite unpopular with suburban women, some voted D in order to protest him.
At most, Trump will be in office for 6 more years, and we will never have another President like him again -- at least not in our lifetimes.
He is also quite old, and is unlikely to be a "leader" of the party in any way once he's out of office.
Soon enough, the Republican Party will return more to what it once was, and the Trump Bogeyman will not be usable to get votes in traditionally red areas.
BTW, part of the blue wave in Orange County is also due to a continuous rise in Hispanic population there.
Republicans do have a problem in that area, and Trump worsened it. Basically Trump was able to energize and reclaim working class whites, but has made it harder for the party to attract Hispanics, which is going to be a long term problem.
However, Democrats also have a long term problem, as they are too focused upon appealing to the big city liberal, and the party's platform is getting farther and farther away from the working class voter's values. This factor drove these people into the arms of Trump in 2016.