He’ll be running for President. Count on it.
For which party? He's burned all credibility with the base of the GOP and (I expect) the current President.
I realize that's the cw but he had to be dragged onto the McCrisis ticket; he had to be dragged onto the Speaker's dais; he'll never run against a same-party incumbent, whether that incumbent is Trump or Pence.
After Trump's election, NO ONE in the GOP will ever fund anything like a reluctant, reticent, rectum-faced gym rat ever again. Never.
He has no base, and he has nothing to build on. Wisconsin will be forever freaky famous for their '08/'12 Obama voters flipping 180° in 2016 to vote for Trump. Ryan has no solution for that, not if he waited 4 freaking election cycles.
If Trump did anything, he red-pilled the GOP - you have to want the office, and you have to be willing to do whatever it takes! GOD DAMN RIGHT.
I wouldn't be surprised. Great strategy by the #NeverTrumpers. Just a guess, but I would run a bunch of candidates against him to make him expend campaign funds better used in the general election. Since the Russian collusion didn't work and obstruction of justice has failed, there's always death by 1,000 cuts.
He’ll lose.
And the RINO establishment will fall all over itself to support him.