The conservative movement will not end with Trump.

 PRESENT POLITICAL ALIGNMENT HAS BEEN ONGOING FOR 30 YEARS

IT IS NOT CONTROLLED BY ONE MAN

While many still believe the present direction of the nations politics will end with the end of the Trump presidency, they need to realize that Trump was able to tap into a movement that preceded him and will continue after he is gone.

The disillusionment of the electorate first manifested itself with the 1994 election, for the first time since WW2, Republicans took control of the Senate and House. In fact, Bill Clinton's election 1992 was a rejection of George Bush 1 who reneged on many of his campaign promise with months of swearing in. He also had to contend with internal opposition from Ross Perot and Pat Buchanan.

In fact in hindsight, Bush 1 began the series of forever wars in the middle east with the first war in Iraq. 

The electorate rebelled about National healthcare, gun control and gays in the military. Issues that were attempted to be forced upon the citizens without any common support. Clinton himself actually was able to work with the Republicans in an effort to balance the budget and reform welfare. His downfall was the baggage of the rest of his party and his wife.

Bush 2 was sold as more conservative than his father, but again, a disappointment to many and only was reelected because of the ongoing terrorist war at the time. much of it resulting from seeds sown in the first gulf war.

Obama was able to convince the electorate that he was a fresh outsider who would be more in tune with the electorate. He immediately set out to force through National health care by many unorthodox means without a broad consensus and destroyed many of the gains in race relations in a short time. He also reigned over regime change wars all over the middle east. His policies resulted in the 2010 rise of Tea Party and a decline in the unity of the country that continues. 

Trump came on the scene and was immediately embraced as an outsider who was more intune with electorate. He promised a change of direction and rooting out of the corruption and excesses of Washington. While there much suspicion and cynicism about what happens in Washington, after only 6 months, the final outcome of things is still up in the air. 

Trump's political career will be over in 3 years, but I think the political world is forever changed, not by Trump, but by a progression of a movement that is ongoing for now decades. It has been aided by the death of the usual media, a rise in alternative sources of information and a new influx of a politically tuned young generation. While Republicans have benefited from this movement, they do not hold a lock on the new voters. Party affiliation is  now more about results than ideology.