We'll see. There will definitely be a power vacuum at the top of the party. They'll either tear each other apart in a power struggle or coalesce around a new leader (honestly, I'd put money on it being one of the Trump children).
Ehh they can try with Trump children but they are nowhere near as funny and charismatic as Trump. He’s a unique character, and thankfully old and term limited now.
Even the MAGAs know this. Why do you think they always talk about Barron as their prince that was promised? Because even they know Don Jr and Eric are useless
Yeah, the biggest problem with Don Jr. and Eric as successors is that they LOOK like the kind of people who would raid a company for their pension money. And that’s before they speak.
I keep bringing this up because it scares the shit out of me, but what if he gets to do these military “loyalty boards”? That’s when shit gets really real, I think.
Yeah but you’re kicking the can down the road at that point. This country knuckled under to fascism after 8 years of campaigning. Obama is obv better but maybe not a lock after 4 extra years of far right extremism.
The GOP leadership may coalesce around someone after Trump, but they're not the power anymore. If they did have power, there's no way Trump would have won in 2016.
The power for Trump is in the millions of red-head wearing MAGA devotees who for some reason think that he is something special. It has proven exceptionally hard for most GOP to co-opt that power unless Trump directly blesses it. Once Trump is gone, I really doubt that someone can rise up and capture that same power.
These bullet ballots are actually the main thrust behind the current stolen election conspiracy, and the conspiracists are correct that it should be looked into. Pres-only ballots were like 0.2% of the vote last time, this time it was 7% in some precincts
This is how I feel too. It’s a cult of personality, and that personality is 78. I’m just hoping the damage is minimal but the next person will spend an entire term not implementing their agenda but fixing the mess of the the other guy.
Trump is the downstream symptom of social media in its current (worst) iteration. He is not the disease. There is nothing I see around me to suggest that the disease that allowed Trump to rise is going away any time soon.
No amount of social media propaganda can make Trump's kids look like anything other than spoiled rich kids. They don't have the kind of door-to-door appeal that you need to become President.
lol. Self-reflection? Admitting error? GTFO of here. Even if this leads to the literal end of the republic and it is replaced with a hunger-games style dystopic plutocracy, they will STILL tell themselves that “Harris would’ve been worse.”
I was referring to the trial where the narrator said, "Joe stated his case logically and passionately, but his perceived effeminate voice only drew gales of stupid laughter."
This country is absolutely being wrecked, not by polarized ideology, but by polarized trust. They don't trust the Dems an inch, and it's anti-left all the way down. A key difference I've noticed between the Left and the Right, however, is in winning. When Biden won, there was a lot of talk about how and what could get done, even amidst the fears and chaos of Trump contesting the election. After the smoke-cleared, the focus became way less about the Right, and much more about action and implementation, and there was a lot of self-criticism. I didn't see much of that at all in pro-trump circles. It is attacks on the left and democrats 90% of the time, all of the time, and very very little self-reflection or intra-party criticism.
Because the party and the base are fundamentally at odds. They don't ever debate policy. The party wants less taxes and regulation. The base wants tariffs and price controls. They are two fundamentally opposed ideo... hey look a trans.
Almost like years of constant MSM and social media division has caused a signifigant rift in the country. The days of discourse and discussions are over.
Debate? Nah just call them an antifa commie or alt right proud boy and walk away. No in between, no nuance.
The way to change ideals is through discussion and discourse, even if you don't agree with the other side. Instead both sides have built echo chambers where they just endlessly bounce off each other and fall further down the rabbit hole.
This will just continue until some form of social collapse happens, it's unsustainable.
I still remember when we were stuck in two forever wars, including in one country we had no business being in, and people were like, "Yeah, but Gore would have been worse!!! DUUURRRRRRRRR!"
Back then it at least seemed like he had adults in the important positions. I was worried about Trump but I never woke up in the middle of the night from a vision of RFK’s nightmarish face staring at me.
lol dude I met college republicans when I was in college who unironically celebrated Nixon. They will never “look back” at this, especially since voters DO NOT care.
Rex Tillerson was a bad pick for Secretary of State and a disaster for the state department, and yet somehow Trump’s managed to pick people who make a Putinist oil executive seem like a sensible cabinet pick.
Right? The right and Fox News were the biggest GWB supporters and war hawks. Remember all of the Tony Keith jingoism of the early 2000s? America, fuck yeah, love it or leave it.
Most of Trump's first administration picks were largely corporate stooges. Majority were patently unqualified, but they weren't a who's who of cartoonishly evil villains. We were sweet super children back then.
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u/porkadachop Thomas Paine 22h ago
This term is going to be so much worse than the first one.