What Elise Stefanik's rise says about the new GOP: Trump rules. Ideology? Fugetaboutit.

The abrupt ouster of Wyoming Rep. Liz Cheney from the House GOP leadership Wednesday took only minutes, but the expected election Friday of New York Rep. Elise Stefanik to replace her is likely to reverberate through the Republican Party for years.

Stefanik's election not only will launch the 36-year-old congresswoman as a leading voice of the Republican Party, and at an age when she could have decades of political ambition ahead. Her rise – and Cheney's fall – is also one more sign of the transformation of the GOP into a party defined not by ideology, but by personality.

Call it the Trumplican Party. 

Stefanik is the prime case study in how a onetime establishment Republican who had been critical of Donald Trump managed to become aligned with him and embraced by him. Only a handful of politicians have successfully negotiated that complicated journey.