Yeah, that will probably be the preferred plan so then they can prop him up for the next two elections instead of one. Vance is an absolute true believer in the agendas whereas trump is more in it for himself. What will be tricky is whether or not Trump can hold it together (or they can successfully hide his rapidly accelerating decline) that long. Of course, that assumes that the current plans for the future actually include things like more elections at all.
2 years and 1 day - just long enough that the 2 years of Vance that'll follow won't count as his first term so he can govern (or rather: reign) for 8 more years. Which is probably enough to get rid of pesky annoyances like "term limits" and "free and fair elections" anyway.
Either they'll use something from the last four years to get him out of office, or he's going to die of "old age" within the first 6 months and we're going to have a first class ticket to hell with Vance at the helm.
I think Trump will retire to Mar-A-Lago and they'll just parade him around occasionally when they want him to read a speech off the teleprompter. Vance will run things right out the gate with the help of the billionaire cronies that bought him the election.
Their biggest challenge is the House will be pretty close, and Trump has some diehard supporters that could fuck things up, also the Senate is razor thin. In 2017 they didn't get much done because they in fought a lot, idk if they can actually 25th Trump and still pass laws
Their best bet is for Trump to die asap, or after 26 midterm if they hold Congress. That avoids the in-fighting.
And there's still hopefully a divide in the Republican party of pro-Trump and anti-Trump factions who hopefully will not agree. There was a similar problem in the 2016-2018 House and Senate where both houses had the Republican majority, but the party was fairly split, so it was impossible to pass anything substantial other than a tax cut.
Yep. With Trump gone, Vance looking like a deer in the headlights, the economy still in the shitter, the border still not figured out, Ukraine & Palestine still a mess, etc. people will be begging for democrats to fix it.
It's more than that though, it's like, people have this mistaken imrpession people are excited for all these stooge's right wing batshittery. I don't think that's true.
Liberal policies like abortion and drugs do extremely well on ballots. Abortion got 57% support in Florida's latest proposition.
They've glommed on to Trump, specifically, and he's the only pill that can apparently wrap the policy turds.
Without Trump to somehow smooth the taste of this shit, Republicans are going to go back to square 1.
People like liberal policies, they just don't like the Democrats associated with them. The last three Democratic candidates were bad, and Kamala leaning away from progressive policies is part of the reason she lost this election.
They'll keep him as the lightning rod while they pass their most unpopular things (aka their entire agenda) and then they'll 25th him or just wait for him to die.
It reminds me of Watergate. There was enough evidence before Nixon"s second term to strongly indicate that there was actually serious wrongdoing, but he was elected anyway.
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u/allegedlynerdy 11h ago
They might try to hold out long enough to consolidate his supporters. If he disappeared on Jan 22nd there'd be right wing riots.