I'd prefer a populist who can control his emotions.
Well stated.
The R establishment needs to be honest that their rank-and-file have given them a failing grade and demand more assertive, unapologetic leadership toward a working-class, main-street America-First platform. If R voters can't trust R officials to stand up for R voters, how can R voters trust those R officials to stand up for the country?
The R rank-and-file needs to be honest that a political leader's temperament is the first thing people see and the thing that most conditions people's assessment of that leader. We might like someone who behaves like an ass, but that doesn't mean the country at large will confirm our choice.
Trump alone deserves credit for putting illegal immigration, middle-class job loss due to globalization, and strangling regulatory bureaucracy front-and-center; this added millions to the R voting rolls, unleashed a tremendous economic boom, and kept US military people out of additional never-ending campaigns. Trump alone deserves blame for allowing his narcissism and ego to alienate large numbers of people on both sides of the aisle and to eclipse his administration's accomplishments; this mobilized the largest and most intense resistance in history against him, and against us.
The R party needs leaders who carry forward without apology the issues Trump advocated, and who can communicate clearly and behave like adults who care about more than their own ego.