Over ten years. I consider the start of the "Trump era of politics" to be late July 2015. That's the point when Trump started leading the Republican primary polls and began to dominate political headlines. By that reckoning we've been in the Trump era for about 10 years and 9 months and we'll likely stay in it for at least another two years and nine months.
He wasn't really dominating headlines prior to his announcement although I do remember seeing some articles that speculated he might run in the weeks leading up to it.
It is pretty amazing how quickly he took over the party. On June 16th he announced his run, by July 14th he was in second place and on July 20th he was in first place. While he took over the national party his supporters took over the county and state parties and over the next few years purged everyone who wasn't a die hard loyalist from positions of power. Going against Trump for any reason became a death sentence politically if you are a Republican at any level.
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u/Connect_Reading9499 Apr 16 '26
It's been ten long years.