Speaker Pelosi will step aside after leading her party in Congress for decades. (NY Times)

Americans will feel the affects of Nancy Pelosi’s leadership for many decades into the future due to her incredibly effective leadership that both allies and foes admire and try to emulate. As she steps aside for a newer generation to take the helm, her proverbial shoes will be very difficult to fill, if not impossible. Both parties are in somewhat of a transition of leadership with the GOP now embroiled in an intense fight to determine who will lead their party. The results of these transitions will have national implications.